RAMALLAH, Nov 13 (JMCC) - Former US president, Jimmy Carter, said in an interview with Al Jazeera News that Hamas agrees to pass on a letter from abducted Israel Defense Force soldier Gilad Shalit to his family on Friday, more than two years since such the last correspondence was received by Israel.

In it, the IDF soldier, abducted in a cross-border raid near the Gaza Strip in 2006, said he had been dreaming of the day of my release and am looking forward to seeing you again. I hope this day will come
soon, but I know it's not up to me or you.

I call upon the government to continue negotiating my release and refrain from focusing their efforts on releasing the soldiers in Lebanon, Shalit's 2008 letter said.

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