Shame on Hamas - Gilad Shalit looks like a Ghost

Gilad Shalit (released today after five years in captivity - for 1000 prisoners) looks like a ghost. I know a sick person when I see one - I'm a doctor. I can spot them on the other side of the room usually quite easily. He was also like a rabbit in the headlights. What he has been through is something I can't bear to think about. Denied Red Cross visits, denied any human rights.

Contrast that to the suicide bombers who were released today - looking pretty healthy, and having had all the human rights the rule of a democratic state has given them.

I'm sorry - whatever your views on Israel and Palestine - this is unforgivable barbarity. Please can we hear the voice of the ordinary Palestinian people saying "not in my name, there is no excuse for doing this to an innocent boy of 19" (he was only 19 when captured five years ago.

And don't come back with relativist arguments - just because the other side might not be perfect is not a reason to do this to an innocent young boy. Full stop.

PS - quote from Wiki says it all:

At the start of the Gaza War, Hamas claimed that Shalit had been wounded by Israeli fire. On 11 January 2009, Abu Marzuk, Deputy Chief of the Hamas Political Ministry, told the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat that:

"Shalit may have been wounded, and he may not have been. The subject no longer interests us. We are not interested in his well-being at all, and we are not giving him any special guard since he is as good as a cat or less."

Says it all, doesn't it?