Almost two years have passed since the Shalit deal was completed and signed in October 2011, yet the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, still continues to recycle that “great achievement” ad nauseam.
In a video clip produced by the Qassam Brigades to mark the seventh anniversary of Gilad Shalit’s abduction, the group “took inventory” of those Israeli soldiers who were kidnapped ever since it was founded. Dramatic, almost Wagnerian, music accompanies the photos of Israeli soldiers Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon (1989), Alon Karavani (1992), Shahar Simani (1993), Yaron Chen (1993), Nachshon Wachsman (1994), Sasson Nuriel (2005) and Shalit himself (2006), who was returned to Israel five years after his abduction.