The release of Shalit has been a point of contention in the already tense relations between the Israeli government and Hamas. In April, Israel called for the UN to retract the Goldstone Report [JURIST report], which accused Israel of war crimes, following statements made by Richard Goldstone in a Washington Post op-ed [text] indicating that the fact finding mission underlying the report may have been flawed. The report accused Palestinian fighters of mistreating Shalit in violation of the Third Geneva Convention [text]. In June 2010, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] urged Hamas [JURIST report] authorities to allow Shalit to communicate with his family and receive visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [official website]. In February 2008, a tentative agreement for the release of Shalit was hindered by disagreements [JURIST report] over the identity of the Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange. Shalit was captured by Palestinian militants in 2006 during a raid on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) [official website] post near the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel.