Al-Mzeiny: Hamas movement won't start Shalit talks till Zionist entity
follows out all truce items
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Hamas senior leader, Osama Al-Mzeiny said on Thursday that Hamas movement
will not resume talks about the Zionist abducted soldier Gilad Shalit till
the Zionist entity implement all items of truce.

Al-Mzeiny stressed that Hamas movement will monitor the Zionist practices on
the crossings for the upcoming two days then it will decide to start
negotiations or not.

"We received an invitation from Egypt late on Tuesday to head to Cairo in
order to start negotiations, but we apologized to them," Al-Mzeiny said.

Hamas senior leader stressed that Hamas movement will not accept less than
releasing 450 Palestinian prisoners as a first stage and 550 as a second
stage of swap deal. He confirmed that they gave Egypt a list of prisoners'
names to be released.

He added that Zionist entity has the right to object the release of maximum
10 prisoners, but he refused to mention any of the names in the list.