In Israel and the Occupied Territories, Palestinian leaders have submitted a list of prisoners they want freed in return for the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The list includes the Palestinian intifada leader Marwan Barghouti.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh: “I hope that happiness will soon enter every Palestinian house when an honorable deal is achieved, in which hero prisoners who spent their youth in jails would be freed. We are serious in concluding this deal, and I hope the negotiations will be concluded in a way that ends the detention of our people in Israeli jails. The ball is in the Israeli court now, and the issue is dependent on the extent to which the Israeli occupation (authorities) respond to the just national demand of freeing our prisoners from the jails of occupation.”