CAIRO, (PIC)-- Waed Society for Prisoners said that it agreed with the Egypt based Palestine Studies Center and the Egyptian revolution youth to seek a prisoner exchange with Israel through the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which was handed power after the Egyptian revolution.
The groups are pushing for the release of all Egyptians held in Israeli custody, as well as all Palestinian women and children and those who have fallen ill and those who have been dealt lengthy prison sentences, in exchange for former Israeli soldier Ilan Grapel, who was arrested last week for spying and trying to recruit Egyptian youths to act against authorities after the Hosni Mubarak ouster.
The Egyptian public prosecutor is due to file an indictment against the alleged Mossad agent this week, according to various reports.
“He is an Israeli military spy who worked on the field, and he broke laws and international treaties with us, in particular the Camp David Accords, which the Egyptians will think about reviewing and terminating, as Israel has not honored it,” said Ibrahim al-Derawi, director of the Palestine Studies Center in Cairo.
“Cairo’s demands should be higher than Hamas’s demands to free its detainees in the Israeli prisons,” Derawi said.
Palestinian resistance forces are also demanding that Israel free some of its most important figures as well as women and children in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli occupation soldier captured in the Gaza Strip on Palestinian occupied land.
The move comes as the Ahrar movement, in the Gaza Strip, called for the capture of more Israeli soldiers to be used in prisoner swap deals.
The calls came in response to increased continued attacks targeting Palestinian prisoners, according to a statement the party released on Monday.
“The best way to save these prisoners is by snatching more Israeli soldiers until the Israeli security establishment submits and releases our heroic prisoners who have spent their lives behind bars in isolation only because they wanted to free their homeland from the occupation.”
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