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Using the figure of the anguished father of the captured soldier Gilad Shalit, Hamas broadcast a grim threat attempting to pressure Israel into a prisoner exchange. Making it even more grotesque is using animation as the medium to depict Shalit’s father, forlorn and aging, walking abandoned streets passing reminders of successive calls for his son’s release. In the end there is finally a prisoner exchange. His son is returned in a coffin.

Hamas releases animated Shalit video on web

A video produced by Hamas’ armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades, will broadcast a 3D animated video of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Sunday, over the movement’s Al-Aqsa satellite TV station.

The video, posted to the Al-Qassam website Sunday morning, contains a voice-over that sounds much like Gilad, in some cases repeating phrases that the captured soldier used in the last recorded video message to his family and country, which was released in mid September proving the young man was in good health. In return the Israeli government ….

As the voice is heard, the animated video shows Shalit’s father on a long search for his son, walking by posters of Israeli leaders calling for his release, but failing to act. The posters bearing Gilad’s name are all campaign posters with current, and fuzzy future leaders feigning action. […]

After what appears to be long years, the video announces a long delayed prisoners swap, and shows Noam at the Erez crossing point, passed by a large Red Cross buss, is said to be reunited with his son, who is taken out of a green van in a coffin.

The father lets out a cry, and the video ends, saying there is still time to change Gilad’s ending.

Here is the video link

This is inhuman and despicable. These are the neighbors Israel has to live with.