Al-Manar
".....A senior official in the U.S. administration told Israeli daily Haaretz that if the deal for Shalit's release is completed, the U.S. would be interested in seeing Israel releasing Fatah prisoners as well, in addition to other gestures to bolster's Fatah's status compared to Hamas. "We are telling the Israelis that [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas' situation needs to be mitigated," the U.S. official said.
Abbas said that the German mediator involved in negotiations for Shalit's release has threatened to quit unless a deal is reached within weeks. Abbas told the state-owned Egyptian daily Al Ahram that negotiations over the prisoner exchange were a matter exclusively between Israel and Hamas and the German and French mediators, and that he was not involved......."
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