Israel freed the first batch of 1,027 terrorists at dawn Tuesday as Gilad Shalit began his journey home after 1,491 days in captivity.
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
First Publish: 10/18/2011, 7:27 AM
Israel freed the first batch of 1,027 terrorists at dawn Tuesday as kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit began his journey home after 1,491 days in captivity. Egyptian authorities said they have taken him to Rafiah, bordering Gaza, although Hamas denied the report.
He is expected to fly home in the next two hours, thus ending one of the mose heart-wrenching episodes in Israel's modern history.
He is expected to fly home in the next two hours, thus ending one of the mose heart-wrenching episodes in Israel's modern history.
Buses, with heavy police escort, transported the terrorists to the Ofer prison, west of Jerusalem, where they are being identified. Most of them later will be transferred to the Kerem Shalom crossing, where Shalit was kidnapped, and Egyptian authorities will receive then.
The Red Cross, which failed to pressure Hamas into honoring the Geneva Conventionand allow its officials to visit Shalit and permit communication between him and his family, also will receive the terrorists.
Other terrorists, citizens of Israel, will be released in Lod, near Ben Gurion Airport. Source: Arutz7
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