Red Cross Demands Proof of Life of Captured Israeli Soldier
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JERUSALEM -- The International Committee of the Red Cross is asking Palestinian armed groups to prove an Israeli soldier captured five years ago is alive.
The agency's director-general, Yves Daccord, called the absence of information concerning Sgt. Gilad Schalit "completely unacceptable."
The Red Cross said Thursday that Gaza's Hamas rulers turned down its previous requests to visit Schalit.
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He was captured June 25, 2006, by Hamas-linked militants in a cross-border raid. There has been no sign of life for nearly two years, when Hamas released a short videotape.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused the Red Cross of being a tool of Israeli intelligence, and said the Schalit case would be ended by swapping him for Palestinian prisoners.
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