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(JTA) — On the one-year anniversary of the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Hamas released a film describing the Israeli soldier’s abduction in 2006.\u00a0According to the film, which was released Oct. 18 on the website of the Hamas military wing, Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, Shalit thought his captors were Israeli because they had put on uniforms resembling those of the Israel Defense Forces.<\/p>\n
The operation on June 25, 2006 was carried out at 5 a.m. because \u201cthat\u2019s when the Zionist soldiers tended to nap,\u201d one of the interviewees in the film said.<\/p>\n
The armed militants who captured Shalit crawled along a 300-yard stretch to reach his tank from the mouth of the tunnel that had been dug in advance. They then split up into three detachments. One was comprised of two men, Mohammed Frauna and Hammed Rantissi, who were discovered and killed on their way to a watchtower.<\/p>\n
Another group placed a \u201cvery large\u201d explosive charge under the barrel of Shalit\u2019s Merkava tank. They moved back, detonated the charge and fired an anti-tank rocket at the vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw a soldier climbing up from the hull so we shot him, then another climbed up so we shot him too,\u201d a man named Abu-Hamza said in the film. \u201cWe heard someone shouting from inside the tank. We reported that we had a live soldier we went into the tank and we took him. He shouted that he was Jewish because he thought we were Jewish because of our uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shalit was released from captivity on Oct. 18, 2011, in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel.<\/p>\n