Haaretz.com brings you minute-by- minute updates as the day, and the exchange, unfolds; Shalit family heads to IAF base as first stage of swap deal completed
07:20 Reports emerge from Egypt that Gilad Shalit is already en route to the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
07:15 Female Palestinian terrorist Amna Muna that was supposed to be deported abroad as part of prisoner exchange deal will instead be deported to Gaza.
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06:54 Shalit family departs from North toward IAF Tel Nof base as all Palestinian prisoners arrive at border crossings.
At first, prisoners will be taken off the busses and identified, ahead of being handed over to Egyptian authorities in Kerem Shalom, and the Red Cross in the Ofer Camp prison (Anshel Pfeffer)
06:04 Prisoner convoy from Sharon Prison arrives at Ofer Prison. Two female prisoners and 14 east Jerusalem residents will be moved to a police station near Ma'aleh Adumim and from there to Jerusalem (Anshel Pfeffer)
Another convoy, this one with 147 prisoners will leave for Kerem Shalom and will be followed several other small envoys transporting 40 additional prisoners.
One prisoner will be moved taken to the Katzrin police; two prisoners will arrive at Ayalon Prison and will be released in Lod, and three prisoners that were moved to Megido Prison are residents of Wadi Ara (Yaniv Kubovic)
05:38 Red Cross representatives arrive at Israeli prison, identify prisoners earmarked for release. (Yaniv Kubovic)
05:33 Israeli Border Patrol prepares to close roads leading to Kerem Shalom, forming a 'sterile zone' for Palestinian prisoner transfer. (Anshel Pfeffer)
05:16 Second convoy with 147 Palestinian prisoners leaves prison for Kerem Shalom. (Yanir Yagna)
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