Israeli Cabinet Approves Prisoner Swap

(29 June 08 - RV) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert won his cabinet's approval today for a prisoner swap with the militant group Hezbollah.Under the deal two soldiers held by the Lebanese group, and believed to be dead, would be recovered.Meanwhile,Israel reopened at least three of its border crossings with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today following a halt to Palestinian cross-border shelling attacks.Israel shut the crossings on Wednesday after an Islamic Jihad rocket salvo which the Palestinian faction called retaliation for Israel's killing of one of its West Bank chiefs.Owen Murray from the Irish Catholic aid agency Trocaire was recently in Gaza. He told us more about the most pressing needs of the people of there.