בכיר בחמאס לעיתון יהודי-אמריקני המקורב למלכיאור: אנו דורשים 66 מחבלים תמורת גופות החיילים ושני הישראלים הלוקים בנפשם
Badran said that his movement now insists on a new prisoner swap "no less significant than the Gilad Shalit deal," in which the Netanyahu government in 2011 traded an Israeli corporal for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including Badran himself. The new deal, he said, must stipulate the release of the remaining 26 veteran security prisoners sentenced before the signing of the Oslo Accords. The swap must also include over 40 Hamas members who had been released by Israel in the Shalit deal but were rearrested
