Gilad Shalit kidnapped ? Yeah , yeah, Right. or are reports a Licence to Kill ?

Is 19 year old Gilad Shalit a kidnapped prisoner held by Hamas in Gaza ?

Lord Patel has been combing the cyberworld, printed press and TV for news of this operation, typically reports hit the press in a very detailed fashion from Israel sources hours after the event e.g

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During yesterday's attack, eight Palestinian terrorists used a half-mile tunnel they dug to infiltrate behind Israel's Kerem Shalom military station, which is on the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border.

Soldiers at the border usually monitor the Gaza Strip and not the Israeli side, where the tunnel exit was located.

Upon exiting the tunnel, the Palestinian terrorists split into three cells, one lobbing more than 20 anti-tank missiles at an army tank; another attacking the tank with grenades, killing the two Israeli soldiers and kidnapping one. The third cell attacked an army lookout post.

Two terrorists were killed during the raid, while the others escaped into Gaza with the kidnapped soldier. he army was not aware one of its troops had been kidnapped until several minutes after the operation.

The Kerem Shalom station had been on high alert the past few days after the army received specific warnings of a terror attack. One of the warning alerts, obtained by WND, outlined the possibility of a Palestinian attack using a tunnel.

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So this French / Israeli youth is not 24 hours in the hands of the terrist scum Hamas and the IDF are listing a whole slew of mistakes including having had prior warnings of attacks, tunnels etc.,

On top of this the same day we get from a variety of Israeli sources (obviously) ...

"a senior military intelligence official told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee the abducted IDF soldier, 19-year-old Gilad Shalit, is being held in the Gaza Strip by senior members of Hamas' so called "resistance wing." .... "The officer told the Knesset Israel does not know exactly where Shilat is, but "we understand that the soldier is alive and lightly wounded." ... remarkable.

Then we got the claims through a flyer on the streets of Gaza ..

This from CNN " The flier, distributed to news organizations and passed out on the streets of Gaza City, came from Izzedine al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas; the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella group that includes militants from Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas; and a previously unknown group calling itself the Army of Islam."

Another Western press report .."An earlier statement by the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees terror group claimed the Committees was holding Shilat and that he was being treated for a stomach wound. A Committees spokesman later denied the report. The group often works closely with Hamas."

What we do know

What we do now is that after this "kidnap" all hell let loose and now more than a reported 120 Gaza citizens, many, women and children are dead and Gaza is a free fire zone for the IDF.

So Lord Patel asks again ...

"Is 19 year old Gilad Shalit a kidnapped prisoner held by Hamas in Gaza ?"

Of course I may be wrong and will be happy to accede, but after a long and detailed search I can find no clear evidence that Gilad Shilat is a prisoner of Hams in Gaza.