🔽Several months after his recruitment on June 25, 2006, Gilad fell into the hands of the Palestinian resistance, who captured him and transferred him to the Gaza Strip after an attack by fighters belonging to three Palestinian armed factions, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, affiliated with Hamas. Israel believed that the soldier was missing until Hamas announced that he was alive. Al-Hayat broadcast a video of him, and requested the release of some Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.

At dawn on June 25, 2006, the operation targeted an Israeli armored force from the Givati ​​Brigade that was stationed at night at the Kerem Shalom military site of the Israeli army on the border between the Palestinian city of Rafah and Israel. A number of Palestinian fighters succeeded in infiltrating through a ground tunnel they had previously dug

Under the border to the Israeli position, which helped them surprise the Israeli force. This attack ended with the killing of two soldiers, the wounding of five others, and the capture of Shalit and his transfer to a safe place in the Gaza Strip.

After his capture, the Shadow Unit was established to keep Gilad Shalit in the hands of the Qassams for five years

In 2008, Israel launched a war on the Gaza Strip, after which Abu Ubaida came out to tell the Israeli army that Shalit needed someone to comfort him in his unity, and that the Al-Qassam Brigades promised to bring him one of his comrades.

In 2011, an Egyptian-brokered exchange deal took place, and Shalit was released from captivity in exchange for the release of more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners.

In 2016, by order of Commander Muhammad Al-Deif, the shadow unit was revealed for the first time, ten years after its founding. Scenes of Shalit from his captivity in the Gaza Strip were also shown.

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