Hamas leader Ismail
Haniyeh threatened that the Gaza-based terrorist organization can still kidnap more Israeli soldiers, Channel 12 reported.
Speaking
to Al Jazeera in an interview, which was held in honor of the 72nd
anniversary of the Nakba, was held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, as the
Hamas leader has not returned to the Gaza Strip in the last two months.
The
comment came while he was discussing the prisoner exchange negotiations
between Hamas and Israel, as he added that he was still waiting for a
breakthrough.
"We can increase our loot, our hand is strong," he
said, implying that Hamas has the ability to kidnap more soldiers, which
can be used as bargaining chips in following negotiations.
"Our
price has been made known," he said. "The occupation must know that we
will only agree to a respectable deal that includes all the Shalit deal
prisoners."
It was reported last week that
Hamas is demanding
the release of all ex-prisoners who were re-arrested by Israel after
they were released in the 2011 prisoner exchange that freed Gilad
Schalit.
"Hamas will not be quiet about prisoners sitting in Israeli prisons; some of them for over 40 years already," he added.
Khaled Abu Toameh and Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.
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