On October 18, 2011, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was finally delivered into the waiting arms of his relieved and long-suffering family after years of terrifying imprisonment. Shalit was captured over five years earlier on June 25, 2006 by notorious Gaza-based terrorist organization Hamas and held in conditions we cannot even begin to fathom – utterly […]
October 18, 2011 by Ha'Am Contributor
Gilad Shalit, the Israel soldier held captive for five years by Hamas, has been freed today in Gaza in return for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Gilad’s first statements (in an apparently coerced interview by Egyptian media): “Obviously I missed my family a lot and also all my friends. I missed meeting normal […]
November 3, 2011 by Alan Naroditsky
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