JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) - The parents of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit folded their protest tent on Wednesday and Palestinian families awaited word on whether their loved ones would go free in a prisoner swap agreed by Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers.
The deal, reached five years after Shalit, then 19, was captured by Palestinian militants who tunnelled into Israel and spirited him across the frontier into the Gaza Strip, stirred mixed emotions.
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