Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
Gaza (dpa) - The armed wing of the ruling Palestinian Hamas movement threatened Tuesday to kill an Israeli soldier whom it has been holding captive for the past 10 months, if Israel attacked the Gaza Strip to end rocket fire from the area at its southern towns.
The life of Corporal Gilad Shalit would be endangered if Israel launched an offensive in Gaza, said Abu Obeida, a spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing.
"Such an operation will cost Israel heavily," he told reporters in Gaza, criticizing calls by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stop the rocket attacks.
Hamas and two other smaller groups captured Shalit in a June 25 raid on an Israeli army outpost bordering the Strip with the goal of exchanging him for Palestinian militants jailed in Israel. His captors can keep him hostage for months and years if necessary, he said.
Egyptian mediators are working to secure a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and the militants but the talks are progressing slowly.
It's time to make Palestine a bigger shithole place than it is already. I'm with Israel!
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