 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange

The Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange (; ) followed a 2011 agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 prisoners – mainly Palestinians and Arab-Israelis, although there was also a Ukrainian, a Jordanian and a Syrian.Two-hundred and eighty of these were sentenced to life in prison for planning and perpetrating various attacks against Israeli targets.