Top defense official: IDF operation to free Shalit not feasible

12.05.2011                      08.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 22 des Omer; Ta'anit BH'B

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Top defense official: IDF operation to free Shalit not feasible

The official noted that the IDF has invested tens of millions of shekels in intelligence efforts aimed at tracking down the location where Shalit is being held, but mostly in vain.

A senior Israeli defense official told reporters on Wednesday that "a military operation to free the captured soldier Gilad Shalit is not feasible."
The official noted that the IDF has invested tens of millions of shekels in intelligence efforts aimed at tracking down the location where Shalit is being held, but mostly in vain. "It's hard to conduct negotiations with four different Hamas heads," the official said. "Ismail Haniyeh has his own views, Mashal has opinions of his own, and Ahmed Jaberi and Mohamed Daf also have their own independent ideas."…