Egypt: Israeli soldier may be freed soon
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Egypt's intelligence chief has told Israeli officials he believes a soldier captured in June by Hamas-linked militants could be released within three weeks, an Israeli Cabinet minister said Thursday.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist captured in the Gaza Strip over two months ago, is alive and well and could be freed &quot;very, very soon,&quot; a Palestinian government spokesman said late Saturday.
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television and expect him to be freed soon, an Israeli Arab legislator close to the Palestinian leadership has said. &quot;They have succeeded in locating the kidnappers and have asked them to release him immediately.
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Palestinian security forces have tracked  down the Gaza kidnappers of an Israeli Arab producer for CNN  television and expect him to be freed soon, an Israeli Arab  legislator close to the Palestinian leadership said on Tuesday.
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Militant groups holding an Israeli soldier seized a year ago said on Monday he was alive and well and would remain a captive until Israel freed thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday there could be an "imminent solution" for the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston, kidnapped in Gaza more than three months ago, should be released &quot;soon,&quot; a spokesman for Hamas said on Sunday.
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Israel agreed on Sunday to free up to 200 Palestinian prisoners to show goodwill after Egypt freed a convicted Israeli spy and ahead of elections for Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor, officials said.
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Israel had promised the release to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in exchange for the release two weeks ago of Azzam Azzam.
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Egypt today released an Israeli man convicted of spying, as part of a prisoner swap that signalled a warming of relations between the two countries, Israeli officials said.
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Hamas's armed wing will release an audio tape on Monday of an Israeli soldier seized by militants in Gaza a year ago, a senior official in the Islamist movement said.
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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Israel is prepared to release many jailed Palestinians, including long-serving prisoners, in return for a soldier militants seized in June, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.
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JERUSALEM, 6 December 2004 - In a sign that relations strained by the Palestinian uprising were warming, Egypt freed an Israeli Druze jailed eight years ago for spying and the Jewish state released six Egyptian students.
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Israeli armored forces prepared for a   threatened offensive into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after   mediators said hope of recovering a kidnapped soldier through   talks was almost gone.
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Hamas's armed wing will release on Monday an audio tape of an Israeli soldier seized by Gaza militants a year ago, a senior official in the Islamist movement said.
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Six Egyptian students held in Israel have been released in a reported exchange for the release of Azam Azam, an Israeli businessman serving a 15-year sentence for espionage in Egypt.
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Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group has  provided Israel with information on the fate of a missing  Israeli airman, a move that will finalize prisoner exchange  talks within weeks, a Omani newspaper said on Friday.