Father offers to join hostage Israeli soldier son in captivity

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2007

JERUSALEM (AFP) — The father of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip last June has offered to join him in captivity until a deal can be reached for his freedom. "I, myself, am prepared to be guarantor for this and, if needed, I am prepared to travel to the Gaza Strip, and to stay with Hamas's security forces until all of their demands are answered," Noam Shalit told Israeli military radio Wednesday.

Shalit said he made the offer in a telephone call to Abu Mujahid, spokesman of the Popular Resistance Committees. The PRC, together with the armed wing of the governing Hamas and a third previously unknown group, the Army of Islam, claimed joint responsibility for seizing Corporal Gilad Shalit in a June 25 raid on an army position near the Gaza...