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MarketNeutral
25th April 2010, 10:27 AM
THE armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement broadcast a grim cartoon warning Israel over the fate of the captured soldier for whom it has demanded hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

The three-minute three-dimensional cartoon depicts the father of captured soldier Gilad Shalit visibly aging as he walks through empty city streets past billboards of former and future Israeli leaders vowing to free his son.

In the end the soldier is shown returned in a flag-draped coffin as part of a prisoner exchange, just before his father, Noam Shalit, wakes up from the dream and realises there is still time to bring his son back alive.

Messages accompanying the cartoon warn that if Israel does not reach a prisoner exchange deal, Shalit will meet the fate of Ron Arad, an Israeli pilot who disappeared on a mission over southern Lebanon in 1986.

"We warn Zionist society that the soldier held captive by the Qassam Brigades (Hamas's armed wing) and other factions will meet the same fate as the Zionist pilot Ron Arad who vanished without a trace," the video said. Read more and another source reports ...

The three-minute three-dimensional cartoon depicts the father of captured soldier Gilad Shalit visibly aging as he walks through empty city streets past billboards of former and future Israeli leaders vowing to free his son.

In the end the soldier is shown returned in a flag-draped coffin as part of a prisoner exchange, just before his father, Noam Shalit, wakes up from the dream and realises there is still time to bring his son back alive.


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