Infolive.tv - Israel News - Hamas agreed to deport 82 Palestinian prisoners during former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's term in office, as part of a deal to return kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, a top Hamas official told Ma'an News Agency on Saturday. The 82 prisoners, all West Bank residents, would be deported to either the Gaza Strip or out of Israel, the unnamed official currently serving time in an Israeli prison told the Palestinian news agency. The official claimed Israel has refused to discuss the remaining 125 prisoners and has presented a new list of Palestinians they wish to release instead. The Israeli list and the Hamas list are entirely different from one another. According to the report Hamas agreed that prisoners with Israeli citizenship who were serving terms of 20-30 years or more would be required to give up their Israeli citizenship in exchange for their release, forcing them to return to Gaza or leave the country. Gilad Shalit has been held incommunicado in Gaza ever since his abduction in a cross border raid five years ago. All efforts to secure his release has so far failed.
