Summary
The Islamist Hamas Movement Sunday raised the prospect of exchanging an Israeli soldier declared dead in the territory's 2014 war in return for Palestinian prisoners.
The bodies of two soldiers killed in the 2014 Gaza war, Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, are believed to be held by Hamas, which has not clarified their fate.
The movement's Gaza chief Ismail Haniyeh Friday said the Qassam Brigades were preparing "for any future clashes with the Zionist enemy," including by building tunnels on the border with Israel.
He said a collapsed tunnel that killed seven militants in Gaza last week was like the one used to capture Shaul and that led to the release of Palestinian prisoners in return for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011 .
Israel has accused Hamas of rebuilding tunnels destroyed during the 2014 war with the aim of launching fresh attacks against it.
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