The leading source for credible citizen reporting

Help | Login | Join Allvoices

Mainstream News

This event is older than two months and is no longer active. Some links older than two months could be broken.

Click here to post a new related report

Shalit Activists Threaten to Block Gaza Crossings

Source: Israel National News

Gaza : Palestine | about 1 year ago

0 0

Activists are planning a large protest Sunday to mark two and a half years since the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. The protest will take place in Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, near the site of the kidnapping. Several of those involved have threatened to block the crossings into Gaza on...

Reach
Credibility

More News From: Gaza : Palestine

Related Allvoices Contributions

Prisoner exchange could see Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit released ...

By: intellectual

Israel and the Palestinians are preparing a prisoner exchanger that could lead to the release of an Israeli soldier who has been held for more than three years In the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of Palestinian militants will be released by Israel. Ther has been a media frenzy since reports that Gilad Schalit, the young Israeli corporal ...

6 days ago
Israel's POW

By: BunniRochelleFisher

The power of words has never been more emphasized than when we speak of Israeli-Palestinian politics. I say that Gilad Shalit is a Prisoner of War, at the same time that I know that many Israelis will be upset with this word - what war? He was not "captured", but "kidnapped" during peacetime. So I do apologize to Israeli readers for using a ...

2 months ago

News Stories

Israelis Rally for Freedom of Captive Soldier Held in Gaza

News Source: Voice of America | about 1 year ago

A demonstration in Israel Sunday sought to bring attention to the plight of a kidnapped soldier held by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. Robert Berger reports from VOA's bureau in Jerusalem. About 3,000 Israelis held a rally demanding the...
Israelis demand the release of captured soldier Shalit

News Source: International Middle East Media Center | about 1 year ago

Over the past several months, both the ruling Hamas in Gaza and Israel have been negotiating a prisoner swap deal through Egyptian mediators, for the release of Shalit and freedom of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails. So far,...
Noam Shalit asks PM not to leave unfinished business behind

News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth | about 1 year ago

Noam Shalit, father of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, called on outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to "do what he could not do for two and a half years. The holidays will soon be over, and the window of opportunity is closing. Act now and don't...
Hamas weighs underway truce with Israel

News Source: International Middle East Media Center | about 1 year ago

Almzaini's remarks came after media reports said that Israel has asked Egyptian mediators to extend the current six-month-long ceasefire to three additional months, prompting Palestinian resistance factions, led by Hamas, to reconsider the truce deal.
Hamas says pressure not to change its demands on Shalit

News Source: Xinhuanet.com | about 1 year ago

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said on Sunday that the ongoing Israeli pressure on the movement won't change its demands on a possible prisoners' swap deal that might be reached between Hamas and Israel. Hamas and two other small...
Barak: Rally will Up Price We Pay for Shalit

News Source: Israel National News | about 1 year ago

Prospective "Most Senior Minister" in Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni's currently forming coalition Ehud Barak told Israeli media Sunday that the public demonstration on behalf of Gilad Shalit would likely raise the price Israel will end up...