Captured Israeli soldier mocked

Hamas TV in Gaza has broadcast a short animated movie mocking an Israeli soldier captured by the militant Islamic group three years ago.

Israeli media played excerpts of it yesterday.

It depicts 22-year-old Sergeant Gilad Schalit chained to a jail cell wall pleading with a Palestinian boy to be set free.

The boy refuses, saying he has relatives in Israeli prisons.

Gaza militants captured Schalit in June 2006 and he has not been seen since.