GILEAD SHALIT IS ALIVE, THANK GOD

Try to keep a dry eye. I cannot. I keep thinking about his parents who have not seen him for 3 years and 3 months. The Israeli TV cannot stop showing it. He is everybody's son or child.

Translation. Clearly he understands his situation and seeks to provide as many identifying details as possible.

"Hello, I'm gilad son of Noam and Aviva Shalit, Brother of Hadas and Yoel that lives in Mitzpeh Hila. My ID # is...,

Today is monday, September 14h 2009. As you can see I'm holding in my hand the today's"Falastin" (Palestine) newspaper which is published in Gaza.

I'm reading it in order to find information about me, and hoping to find anything that will tell me of my release and my return home soon. I hope and been waiting for a long time to the day of my release, I hope that the current government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, wont miss the chance now to make this deal, so that I could finally make my dream come true and be released.

I want to send greets to my family and tell them I love them and miss them very much, and wishing for the day I see them again.

Dad, Yoel & Hadas, do you remember the day of your arrival to my base in the Golan Heights? on december 31st 2005? which If im not mistaken called"Revaiah Bet".

We toured around the base and you took a picture of me on the Merkavah tank and on one of the old tanks at the entrance of the base then we drove to a restaurant in one of the Druze villages and on the way we took a picture of us with the snowy Hermon mountain in the background.

I want to tell you I feel well health wise, and the Mujahidin of Azadin al qasam brigades treat me well, thank you and goodbye."