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Hamas says suspends prisoner swap talks with Israel

GAZA-Islamist Hamas said on Friday it was suspending indirect talks with Israel over a prisoner swap deal, citing Israeli violations of a declared truce in Gaza.Gaza's Islamist leaders have accused Israel of dragging its feet in implementing the truce deal that includes a gradual increase of goods shipments into the Gaza Strip.Israel has briefly closed the crossings and has suspended shipments in response to cross-border rocket attacks by militants after the ceasefire went into effect last month.Hamas officials were set to travel to Cairo as early as this weekend for Egyptian-mediated talks on a deal to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for Palestinians jailed in Israel.Hamas had sought the release of some 1,400 prisoners, a third of them serving several life terms, in return for freeing Shalit, whom Hamas and two other militant groups abducted in a cross-border attack in 2006."Hamas has decided to suspend talks over Shalit's case because of the occupation's (Israel's) non-commitment to the calm deal," Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters."There is no way for those talks to begin before the obligations of calm are implemented (by Israel)," he said.Hamas officials said they had received an invitation to visit Cairo but said "there was no arrangement for a Hamas delegation to leave soon."
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