TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Yifa Yaakov
June 24, 2014

TV report: Netanyahu was on the defensive after it emerged that convict released in Shalit exchange allegedly killed Israeli father-of-five on Passover eve

Informed that Ziad Awad, a convicted terrorist released in 2011 as part of the deal to free Gilad Shalit, had been arrested in May for the Passover Eve murder of an off-duty policeman near Hebron, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly ordered Israeli forces looking for the three teens kidnapped on June 12 to re-arrest dozens more of the Palestinian prisoners who were freed in the Shalit exchange.

According to Channel 10, Netanyahu ordered the military to seize other prisoners freed in the 2011 deal with Hamas because he felt “pressured” to respond to the fact that it was a prisoner freed by Israel, in the controversial Shalit deal that he approved, who had committed the Passover eve murder of father-of-five Baruch Mizrahi. Thus he instructed the IDF and Shin Bet security agency to carry out the mass arrests.

…..The Israeli judiciary was hard at work Monday evening preparing indictments which would send some of the prisoners to jail to resume their original sentences. Others were placed in administrative detention while the allegations against them were examined. These 55 are in addition to 76 more of the 1,027 prisoners freed in the Shalit deal who had been rearrested since they went free in 2011.

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-ordered-rearrests-of-dozens-of-prisoners-freed-in-shalit-deal/