 in a massive prisoner exchange where more than 1,000 Palestinians were freed from Israeli jails in return for one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit. So Hamas officials all emphasized to me that one of the primary goals of their operations on October 7th was to take as many soldiers that they could back to Gaza because they believed that that was the only way to free high-value prisoners, including Marwan Barghouti, who is not a member of Hamas,