http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148879Gilad Shalit told Egyptian media he was told a week ago he would be freed. “I was happy to hear it, but I was suspicious,” he said. “I waited years, but I believed I would find myself free.”
He said the first thing he wants to do when he gets home is to “be with my family and meet my friends and speak with them. I want to tell people about my experience.”
Despite his having been in captivity without communication with the outside world for more than five years, Egyptian media asked him difficult and loaded questions.
Asked if the captivity and release gave him a stronger will, Shalit answered, “A deal could have been arranged sooner."
Questioned whether he will help campaign for the release of “
4,000 more Palestinian prisoners ‘languishing’ in Israeli jails,”
Shalit reפlied: "
I will be happy if they will be freed and return to their homes” if they do not return to terror.
He expressed the hope that Israel’s freeing of 1,027 terrorists and security prisoners will help it make peace with the Palestinian Authority.
IDF doctors examined Shalit before his return home, and he was confirmed to be in good and stable health.