Palestinian women released in exchange for Shalit Video

Netanya (Israel) - Nineteen Palestinian women are released from prison Friday morning in an exchange against a recent video of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held hostage in the Ghaza Strip since 2006, according to an AFP journalist.

•     The prisoners must be released officially in the morning after the Israeli authorities have viewed the videotape of the hostage and found it was filmed recently.
  
      Eighteen prisoners were taken in three vans to the detention center of Ofer, near Ramallah (West Bank), where they will be released. The last went for the Shikma prison in Ashkelon (southern Israel) for her transfer in the Ghaza Strip, where she lives.
  
      Detained for over three years by Palestinian armed groups in Ghaza, the soldier Gilad Shalit, 23, became a symbol and a test to the Israel's commitment to Israel's fallen soldiers in captivity.
  
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.