Why is #GiladShalit Trending?
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Gilad Shalit is an Israeli soldier who has been held captive by Hamas for over three years now. He was kidnapped at the age of 19, and is about to turn 23. The Tweet 4 Shalit campaign was initiated to raise awareness about Shalit on the occasion of his birthday.
From Wikipedia:
Gilad Shalit (Hebrew: גלעד שליט, born 28 August 1986) is an Israeli soldier who was captured[2] [3] on 25 June 2006 by Palestinian militants in a cross border raid from the Gaza Strip on the Kerem Shalom crossing (in Israel) and has been held hostage by Hamas since. Shalit is believed to be alive.[4][5][6][7][8][9] Shalit, a soldier of the IDF’s Armor Corps, held the rank of corporal at the time of the incident but has since been promoted to staff sergeant.[1]
He became the first Israeli soldier captured[10] by militant Palestinian forces since Nachshon Wachsman in 1994.[11] His abduction[12] and the following cross border raid by Hezbollah, resulting in the abduction of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev into Lebanon, occurred prior to the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon during summer 2006. Shalit holds French citizenship, a fact that encouraged France and the European Union to be involved to some extent in the efforts to release him.[13] Recently, he also received Italian citizenship.[14] Hamas has barred the International Red Cross from seeing him, and has demanded the release of 450 Palestinian prisoners.[15][16][17]