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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: September 6, 2007 |
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A senior Hamas official announced on Thursday that the group refuses to allow the Red Cross to visit kidnapped IDF soldier Corporal Gilad Schalit who has been in captivity for over 430 days, according to the Jerusalem Post
"If Israel knows where he is located, they might blow the place up in order to bring about his death and end the whole affair," he said.
Hamas has demanded that Israel release all female and underage prisoners from Israeli jails in return for a video recording of Schalit, a request that the government rejected.
The official added that Hamas had received no new offers to free Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Schalit, but that there was progress on the issue and that other officials were mediating between the two sides after the Egyptians stopped their mediation efforts.
The comments followed an Associated Press report on Wednesday that Schalit's kidnappers "may permit" International Committee of the Red Cross representatives to visit him - which the ICRC later denied.
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