Israel-Hamas Prisoner Swap
Aviva and Yoel Shalit, Gilad Shalit’s mother and brother, at the open-air concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra organized to show solidarity with the captive soldier near the Gaza border in 2010. (Photo: Itzik Edri/Wikipedia)
Anchor Marco Werman talks with Akiva Eldar, political columnist for Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper, about the news that a deal has been struck to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Shalit had been help prisoner in Gaza for more than five years.
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