Al Qassam website - Ezzedeen Al-Qassam, the military wing of Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, announced that the detainees exchange deal has accomplished, the Brigades and Palestinian factions who participated in capturing Shalit announced that the deal will be within days.

The Brigades said in an exclusive press statement for Al Qassam website "An honorable exchange deal has accomplished, whereby Palestinian detainees will be freed for the release of the Zionist soldier Gilad Shalit."

The Brigades also confirmed that the deal criteria accomplished for the first time in the history of the Palestinian resistance.

It is worth mentioning that the Al-Qassam, An-Nasser Salah Edeen Brigades and the Army of Islam had captured the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from his tank in the lands which occupied in 1967, in an operation known as the" Dispelled Illusion", this operation came as confirmation of its adherence to the issue of releasing the Palestinian detainees.