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  Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit returned home Tuesday from more than five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. (AP)
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  Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, reunites with his father Noam, right at the Tel Nof Air base in southern Israel. (AP)
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  Flag-waving Israelis greet the convoy carrying freed Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit making its way to his home. (Moran Maayan, AP)
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  Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh celebrates during a welcoming ceremony, in Gaza City. The arrivals of the prisoners set off ecstatic celebrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (Tara Todras-Whitehill, AP)
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  A Palestinian prisoner arrives in Qatar, as a part of the deal to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. (Osama Faisal, AP)
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  In this image from Egypt TV Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit is seen at an undisclosed location in the Gaza-Egypt border area accompanied by Hamas guards as he is moved in to Egypt from captivity in Gaza. (AP)
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  Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit is seen at a pre-recorded interview released Tuesday. (AP)
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  The parents of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and their son are on their way to meet Gilad after over five years of captivity by Gaza-based militant groups. (Jack Guez, AFP)
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  A grab from a video released on October 2, 2009 shows captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit at an undisclosed location in the Gaza Strip. (AFP)
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  A convoy carrying Palestinian prisoners who are to be exchanged for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit leaves Ktsiot prison camp in southern Israel's Negev desert. (Tsafrir Abayov, AP)
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  Yellow ribbons are tied to a tree as an Israeli boy, wrapped in an Israeli flag, stands near the house of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. (Oded Balilty, AP)
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  A mural painting depicting captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Jabalia refugee camp. (Alessio Romenzi, AFP)
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  Noam Schalit, father of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, center with black shades, leaves his house. (Oded Balilty, AP)
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  Israeli youths place banners ahead of the arrival of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit near his house in Mitzpe Hila. (Oded Balilty, AP)
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  A stage in seen in a field in Gaza City where celebrations will be held to welcome prisoners released from Israeli prisons. Buses carrying 477 Palestinian prisoners were headed for Gaza and the West Bank in the first stage of a swap deal to free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. (Alessio Romenzi, AFP)
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  A mural depicting the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shlait is seen in Gaza City. (Alessio Romenzi, AFP)
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  Hamas militants stand guard as the Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap deal gets under way. (Alessio Romenzi, AFP)
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  Members of the International Red Cross wait at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip as an Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap deal gets under way. (Mohammed Abed, AFP)
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  A helicopter carrying the parents and brother of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit takes off. (Jack Guez, AFP)

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