Families of Palestinian prisoners held a press conference Thursday during which they encouraged Aviva and Noam Shalit to keep pressuring the Israeli government on behalf of their son.
The wife of one of the Palestinian prisoners held in Israel addressed Aviva Shalit in Hebrew: "You have lost your son Gilad only four years ago. We have been waiting for our sons and husbands, who are imprisoned in your jails, where they suffer torture and have only minimal conditions, for dozens of years."