Palestinian Kidnappers Mock Israel
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 8:09 am PDT • Views: 190
The kidnappers of Corporal Gilad Shalit are taunting Israel.
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants involved in the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier taunted the Jewish state on Thursday by saying the conscript could be dead or alive.
Abu Mujahed, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), said in a statement that Israel should stop wasting time if it wanted to resolve the crisis over the abduction of Corporal Gilad Shalit. …
The spokesman did not say who was holding Shalit after Sunday’s raid by three militant factions an army post near the Gaza border. He set out three scenarios.
“Possibility one: the missing soldier, for one reason or another, is dead and maybe there is a morgue available for his body or maybe there is not,” Abu Mujahed said at a news conference.
“Possibility two is the soldier is still alive but is suffering a serious injury. Medication might be available or might not be available …. Possibility three is that he is fine but that a long time will pass (before he is released).”
Abu Mujahed reiterated earlier demands from militants that Israel free Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Israel has rejected the demands. “Wasting time is not in their interests,” he said.
Meanwhile, the IDF has announced that 18-year old Eliyahu Asheri was murdered immediately after his kidnapping—not in response to the Gaza operation.
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