Thursday, May 10, 2007

Schalit´s incertain future


Hamas's armed wing, Izzadin a-Kassam, has threatened to execute kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit if the army enters Gaza. In an as-yet-unpublished statement to a Palestinian Web site, the group's spokesman, Abu Obaidah, was quoted as saying that if the IDF carries out a military incursion in Gaza, Schalit's life could be in clear danger, and he may even be killed. "One way or another, it is in the hands of Izzadin Kassam," Obaidah said in the statement. Shortly after the report was released, Hamas sources in Gaza denied that Abu Obaidah had made any such statement.
In response, MK Yisrael Katz (Likud) called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to declare that if Hamas harmed Schalit, PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his friends in the Hamas government would be assassinated. More...

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