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Hamas Military Wing Boasts About Israeli Kidnapped Soldiers

The propaganda film produced by Hamas' military wing showing Israeli soldiers kidnapped since the 1980s is nothing more than a sign of weakness.  
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (L) poses for photograph with Ahmed Al-Jabari (R), top commander of Hamas armed wing Al-Qassam brigades, and Palestinian prisoners (back) freed in a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Cairo October 18, 2011. Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel's borders in opposite directions on Tuesday as a thousand-for-one prisoner exchange brought joy to families but did little to ease decades of conflict. REUTERS/Hamas Office/Handout (EGYPT -
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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.

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