Hamas denies Schalit release
From the Jerusalem Post:
Hamas denied Monday that the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit was imminent, saying only that it was currently “not on the agenda,” Israel Radio reported.
“The Palestinian people have other, more pressing issues to deal with,” Hamas spokesman Razi Hamed said. He added that there was no connection to be made between the establishment of a unity government and the release of Schalit.
Hamas’s comments follwed remarks by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Monday in which she said that Israel had a better reason to believe Abbas’s promises of Schalit’s release now that Abbas and Hamas were working together.
