JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A brief biography on the website of a campaign for his freedom was all many Israelis knew of the life of Gilad Shalit until he appeared, gaunt and tired, on television on Tuesday after Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers freed him from five years' captivity.
His breathing sometimes laboured and his speech faltering, the soldier offered the first details of his life in captivity in an interview with Egyptian television following his release in an exchange for a thousand Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
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