Zionist regime requests Germany’s help to reach prisoners swap deal with Hamas

The request was made during a meeting between Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin, according to a statement by the Israeli legislative body.

Levy, who has been in Germany since Monday, will participate in a ceremony marking fictitious Holocaust Remembrance Day later Thursday.

He claimed the request was made in light of recent success by German mediators in reaching deals.

Germany made an important contribution to the Egyptian-mediated prisoners' swap between Hamas and Israeli regime in 2011.

In April 2016, Hamas said it had taken four Israeli soldiers captive. It withheld their identities except for Oron Shaul, an Israeli soldier missing since the 2014 Israeli offensive on Gaza.

At least 4,650 Palestinians are held by Zionist regime, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society.