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<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=530221" target="_blank"><strong>Ma&#8217;an News Agency | Oct 18, 2012</strong></a><br />
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<p>GAZA CITY (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; The Prime Minister of the Hamas government in Gaza told an anniversary rally on Thursday that the prisoner swap deal for a captured Israeli soldier was a national achievement.</p>
<p>The Oct. 2011 deal freed over 1,000 Palestinians from Israeli jail in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in 2006 and held in Gaza.</p>
<p>At the anniversary celebrations, Ismail Haniyeh said the release of prisoners was not just a victory for the militants that took Shalit, but all Palestinians and Muslim nations.</p>
<p>The welfare of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel is not a partisan issue, but concerns the whole nation, he said, stressing that prisoners are held because of their defense of all Palestinian people.</p>
<p>He called for a complete national strategy to free all Palestinians, based on ending the division between his government and the Fatah-dominated authority in the West Bank.</p>
<p>A national program must defend the choice of resistance, and make prisoners a top priority, he said.</p>
<p>The spokesman of Hamas&#8217; armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, earlier on Thursday pledged further prisoner exchanges.</p>
<p>&#8220;This swap deal will not be the last. We will always act in order to secure the release of all detainees,&#8221; Abu Obaida said.</p>
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