Cairo (AFP)--A deal to exchange captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for Palestinians held in Israel is being held up over demands that some of them be exiled, Hamas officials were quoted as saying Monday.
The disagreement centers on four Palestinian prisoners whom Israeli courts convicted of attacks against Israeli civilians or of heading a "terrorist organization," the state-owned Egyptian daily Al-Ahram reported.
"The dispute between Israel and Hamas has narrowed down to four names... Israel demands that they be exiled from the West Bank and Gaza," a Hamas official told the newspaper.
The four include Ahmed Saadat, leader of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who was sentenced to 30 years by an Israeli military court in December "because of his position and activities within the terrorist movement".
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