Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations

    GAZA, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- A Hamas spokesman denied on Sunday that a delegation from his movement will head for Egypt to study an Israeli offer to exchange prisoners.

    "The Israeli occupation releases these reports in a bid to get information" from Hamas about the captive soldier Gilad Shalit, said Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman for Hamas.

    Barhoum also denied that his movement received an offer in which Israel said it would release 220 prisoners out of a controversial list of 350 names.

    Hamas and two aligned groups, which captured Shalit near the Gaza Strip in 2006, demands Israel to free more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the corporal.

    Differences between Hamas and Israel over the names of the prisoners to be freed forced the Egyptian-mediated negotiations toa halt over a year ago.

    "The problem is with the occupation which doesn't want to release the prisoners upon the demands of the factions," Barhoum said, vowing that Hamas will not give up any of its demands.