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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-seeks-high-price-for-israelis-who-fell-into-its-lap/
Hamas Seeks High Price for Israelis Who Fell into its Lap
(Times of Israel) Avi Issacharoff - Avera Mengistu and the second captive Israeli, a Bedouin, constitute significant assets for Gaza's Islamist rulers. On Wednesday, Hamas' leader-in-exile, Khaled Mashaal, talked about negotiations between Israel and Hamas for the remains of soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oren Shaul, who fell in last summer's war, and two missing Israelis. He said Hamas will not give up any information until Israel releases all the Hamas members who had gone free in the Shalit exchange but who were rearrested last spring after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped by a Hamas terror cell and later found murdered in the West Bank. Many of the 1,027 Palestinian security prisoners who were released in exchange for Gilad Shalit are today directing West Bank terrorist activity from Gaza and from Turkey, where they were deported. Those terrorist operations have cost Israeli lives. Israel agreed to the exchange four years ago for the sake of a soldier who had been held hostage for years, having been kidnapped from inside Israel during his military service. The current equation is very different.