HAMAS PALESTINIANS: "Want 'Bride for Shalit'

Arabs want 'bride for Shalit'

Disturbing initiative: Palestinians set up Facebook group with sickening photo of chained female soldier held by armed Arab woman; message on group's page: Abduct partner for Shalit

Elior Levy

Published:  06.17.11, 02:36 / Israel News

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For five years now, Hamas has been holding Gilad Shalit but failed to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the abducted IDF soldier. As it turns out, Gaza radicals are fed up with this failure, yet instead of making do with a more minor release of detainees they prefer to boost the "loot" in their possession.

Accordingly, a new Palestinian Facebook group has been launched in recent days titled "The people want a bride for Shalit."

Photo posted on Facebook

The intention behind the slogan is clear: A call for the abduction of an Israeli female solider who will serve as yet another Hamas bargaining chip in a future prisoner swap with the Jewish state.  Yet beyond the disturbing message, group organizers resorted to particularly sickening "humor" to further their cause, posting a doctored photograph showing a chained Israeli soldier held by an armed Palestinian woman belonging to Hamas' military wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.


One group member wrote the following message on Facebook: "We need to abduct a soldier who will become a female Shalit, so they get married and bring us a bunch of Shalits."

Next week will mark the five-year anniversary of Gilad Shalit's abduction.

Elior Levy is Ynet's Palestinian affairs correspondent

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