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In this Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 photo, director Majed Jundiyeh, left, talks to Mahmoud Karira who will play the character of Gilad Shalit in a movie being made in Gaza called, ''Losing Shalit," in Gaza City. "Losing Schalit," currently being filmed in the blockaded territory, is the first of a planned three-part series about the 2006 capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit by gunmen allied with the Islamic militant Hamas movement. Parts two and three will depict Schalit's time in captivity and his 2011 swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 photo, Fayka al-Najar, who plays an Israeli female soldier, adjusts her hat on the set of a movie being made in Gaza called, '' Losing Shalit,'' adjusts her hat during filming in Gaza City. "Losing Schalit," currently being filmed in the blockaded territory, is the first of a planned three-part series about the 2006 capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit by gunmen allied with the Islamic militant Hamas movement. Parts two and three will depict Schalit's time in captivity and his 2011 swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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In this Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 photo, Mahmoud Karira, who will play the character of Gilad Shalit in a movie being filmed in Gaza called, '' Losing Shalit," talks to the Associated Press, in Gaza City. "Losing Schalit," currently being made in the blockaded territory, is the first of a planned three-part series about the 2006 capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit by gunmen allied with the Islamic militant Hamas movement. Parts two and three will depict Schalit's time in captivity and his 2011 swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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In this Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014 photo, director Majed Jundiyeh holds a mobile phone to compare the image of Gilad Schalit to the likeness of actor Mahmoud Karira, who will play the character of Shalit in a movie being made in Gaza called, ''Losing Shalit," in Gaza City. "Losing Schalit," currently being filmed in the blockaded territory, is the first of a planned three-part series about the 2006 capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit by gunmen allied with the Islamic militant Hamas movement. Parts two and three will depict Schalit's time in captivity and his 2011 swap for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Indian-born conductor Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra during a concert for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit (pictured at top) in the Eshkol Park near the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Monday, July 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

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In this photo taken Thursday, July 12, 2012, freed Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, center, speaks with the French Ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot at the ambassador’s residence in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Flag-waving Israelis greet the convoy carrying freed Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit making its way to his home in Mitzpe Hila, northern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Moran Maayan)

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People react as Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, freed in a swap for Palestinian prisoners, arrives home in Mitzpe Hila. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit (second from right) walks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from left), Defense Minister Ehud Barak (left) and Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz at the Tel Nof Air Base in southern Israel on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Ministry)

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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, is escorted by his father Noam Schalit, right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense minster Ehud Barak as he arrives at Tel Nof Air base in southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/ GPO, HO)

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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, left, is followed by from right: parents Noam and Aviva, brother Yoel and Yoel's girlfriend Yaara Winkler at the Tel Nof Air base in southern Israel (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Ministry)

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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, left, shakes hand with Defense Minister Ehud Barak as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, smiles at the Tel Nof Air base in southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/ Defense Ministry, Ariel Hermoni, HO)

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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit walks down the stairs into his home in Mitzpe Hila, northern Israel, after over five years in captivity, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/ IDF)

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Noam Schalit, right, and Aviva Schalit, third right, parents of Israeli captured soldier Gilad Schalit walk together with their son Yoel, fifth right, and his girlfriend Yaara Winkler, fourth right, along with Israeli army officers towards an Army helicopter, not seen, in Tefen, northern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit , center, walks to a car after landing in Mitzpe Hila, northern Israel,Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Looking thin, weary and dazed, an Israeli soldier returned home Tuesday from more than five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners whose joyful families greeted them with massive celebrations. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)