(R-L) Noam, Aviva, and Yoel Shalit, parents and brother of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, leave Israel's Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv after a meeting with Israel's chief negotiator in the indirect contacts with Hamas November 23, 2009. Israel has softened its terms for a prisoner swap with Hamas and the two enemies are nearing a deal to exchange hundreds of Palestinian inmates for Shalit, an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip, officials said on Monday. REUTERS/Nir Kafri (ISRAEL POLITICS CONFLICT) ISRAEL OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN ISRAEL
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