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Jewish settlers’ “Price Tag” mosque-burning campaign spreads to Israel Related Topics World » Israel » Related Video Preparing for prisoner swap in the Middle East Mon, Oct 17 2011 A convoy carrying Palestinian prisoners is seen as it leaves the Ketziot prison in southern Israel October 18, 2011. Vehicles carrying Palestinian prisoners began departing from jails in Israel on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said, setting in motion a phased prisoner exchange that is meant to secure the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Credit: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA | Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:28am EDT GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's Hamas Islamist rulers released captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, a Hamas military source said, in a deal ending a saga that has gripped Israel for five years. The source said Shalit, 25, was taken across the frontier from the Gaza Strip into Egypt's Sinai peninsula, where he was handed over to Egyptian officials who will take him to Israel's Vineyard of Peace border crossing a short distance away down a desert road. There was no immediate confirmation from Israel or Egypt. Israel was to release 477 Palestinian prisoners during the day. Some were due to be taken to the Sinai and handed over to Egyptian officials for transfer to the Gaza Strip, which is run by Hamas. Other were to go free in the occupied West Bank. Some 40 are being sent into exile to Turkey, Qatar and Syria. Another 550 Palestinians are to be released in a second stage of the Egyptian-brokered agreement, expected in about two months. The mood in Israel was one of joy. Shalit has been popularly portrayed as "everyone's son" and opinion polls showed that an overwhelming majority of Israeli backed the thousand-for-one deal, although many of the prisoners going free were convicted of deadly attacks. For Palestinians, it was a time to celebrate what Hamas hailed as a victory, and a heroes' welcome awaited the released prisoners. Palestinians see brethren jailed by Israel as prisoners of war in a struggle for statehood. The deal received a green light from Israel's Supreme Court late on Monday after it rejected petitions from the public to prevent the mass release of prisoners, many serving life sentences for deadly attacks. Shalit was abducted in June 2006 by militants who tunneled into Israel from the Gaza Strip and surprised his tank crew, killing two of his comrades. He has since been held incommunicado and was last seen looking pale and thin in a 2009 video shot by his captors. On reaching Israel, Shalit will be flown by helicopter to an air base in the center of the country where he will be greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and reunited with his family. Later he will fly to his home in northern Israel. HIGH PRICE The repatriation of captured soldiers, alive or dead, has long been an emotionally charged issue for Israelis. Many have served in the military as conscripts and see it as sacrosanct. But they also feel stung by the high price they feel Israel is paying for Shalit. "I understand the difficulty in accepting that the vile people who committed the heinous crimes against your loved ones will not pay the full price they deserve," Netanyahu wrote in a letter, released by his office, to bereaved Israeli families. Israel, which withdrew troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005, tightened its blockade of the coastal territory after Shalit was seized and taken there. The deal with Hamas, a group classified by the United States and European Union as a terrorist organization over its refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence, is not expected to have a direct impact on efforts to revive Middle East peace talks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a Hamas rival, has been pursuing U.N. recognition of Palestinian statehood in the absence of negotiations with Israel that collapsed 13 months ago in a dispute over settlement-building in the occupied West Bank. Crowds gathered in both Gaza and the West Bank awaiting the return of their prisoners. "This is the greatest joy for the Palestinian people," said Azzia al-Qawasmeh, awaiting at a West Bank checkpoint for her son Amer, who she said had been in prison for 24 years. (Additional reporting by Rami Amichai, Ronen Zvulun, Ari Rabinovitch and Nidal al-Mughrabi and Douglas Hamilton in Gaza and Tom Perry in Ramallah; Editing by Crispian Balmer) World Israel Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (4) Sniper wrote: Fortunately, the Israelis have clandestinely fitted the “Palestinian’s', with hidden RFID units so they will always know where they are when they have to detonate said device… Oct 17, 2011 10:13pm EDT -- Report as abuse JehudaBenIsrael wrote: “…free Palestine...” writes the poster. In more than one way, such a country has been in existence for many decades. But to fully understand it, one must appreciate the legal-history of the evolving of the subject. In the beginning of the 20th century the geographic region called “Palestine” consisted of present day Jordan-Israel-WestBank-Gaza. And, on this basis the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917, calling for “Palestine” to be the “national home for the Jewish people”. The Balfour Declaration was then incorporated into the San Remo Conference decisions, 1920, the first truly legal document. But, Britain that controlled the region, instead, handed over 78% of “Palestine” to the Muslim-Arabs in which to establish an independent Muslim-Arab state there, that today is called Jordan. The League of Nations, 1922, in its resolution of that year incorporated the San Remo Conference decisions viewing, legally, the rest, 22% of the geographic region called “Palestine”, as “the national home for the Jewish people”, or the nation-state of the Jewish people if you will, to use present day terminology. The United Nations that replaced the League of Nations in 1945 adopted the League of Nations’s resolutions, not to be changed, thus etching in the corpus called ‘international law’ the fact that the nation state of the Jewish people must include present day Israel-WestBank-Gaza (22% of “Palestine”) while the rest, (78% of “Palestine”) now called Jordan is legally the independent Muslim-Arab country that some seek. Oct 18, 2011 1:28am EDT -- Report as abuse GeoffPotter wrote: Welcome home all of you. May you and your families live your lives in peace Oct 18, 2011 2:18am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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