The Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas) on Thursday said it would not change or modify its conditions of a prisoner exchange with Israel, Xinhua reported.
"The standards and the conditions will not be softening and also the names would not be modified," said Osama al-Muzini, a Hamas official who closely follows up the case. "Our steadfastness on this point made the enemy staggering."
Al-Muzini said Hamas would not respond to any thing related to the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier that Hamas' movement holds since 2006, "before our conditions and demands are met."
He said that a progress was made in the earlier indirect negotiations with Israel "but was insufficient for accomplishing the swap." Now, the talks are suspended.
"We have set the number of the prisoners who would be freed, but the Zionist entity only accepted to release 325 prisoners, the difference is high, of course," al-Muzini revealed.
In addition, Israel wanted to deport some of the 325 prisoners, which accepted to free and insisted that other 100 prisoners of whom Hamas demands will not be released under any agreement, according to al-Muzini.
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