A convoy carrying Palestinians prisoners who are to be exchanged for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit leaves Ktsiot prison camp in southern Israel's Negev desert, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The elaborate machinery of a prisoner swap deal between two bitter enemies swung into motion early Tuesday, as hundreds of Palestinians and one Israeli soldier prepared to return home in one of the most dramatic recent developments in the otherwise deadlocked Israel-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo / Tsafrir Abayov)
A convoy carrying Palestinians prisoners who are to be exchanged for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit leaves Ktsiot prison camp in southern Israel's Negev desert, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The elaborate machinery of a prisoner swap deal between two bitter enemies swung into motion early Tuesday, as hundreds of Palestinians and one Israeli soldier prepared to return home in one of the most dramatic recent developments in the otherwise deadlocked Israel-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo / Tsafrir Abayov)
A convoy carrying Palestinian prisoners who are to be exchanged for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit leaves Ktsiot prison camp in southern Israel's Negev desert, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The elaborate machinery of a prisoner swap deal between two bitter enemies swung into motion early Tuesday, as hundreds of Palestinians and one Israeli soldier prepared to return home in one of the most dramatic recent developments in the otherwise deadlocked Israel-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Palestinian Hamas militants stand guard on the main road in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. The exchange between Israel and Hamas in which 1,027 Palestinian prisoners will be released for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit is expected to take place on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
Palestinian Hamas militants stand guard on the main road in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. The exchange between Israel and Hamas in which 1,027 Palestinian prisoners will be released for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit is expected to take place on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israeli officials say the last preparations have been made for a prisoner swap in which hundreds of Palestinians are to be traded for an Israeli soldier held in Gaza for more than five years.
Israel Prisons Service spokesman Sivan Weizman says hundreds of prisoners have been transported to the locations where they will be released early Tuesday.
After the first Palestinians are freed, Hamas militants in Gaza are supposed to release Sgt. Gilad Schalit, a tank crewman captured in 2006.
Schalit will first cross into Egypt and will then cross into Israel.
Israel is slated to free 477 prisoners Tuesday and another 550 in two months.
The campaign to free Schalit made him a national symbol in Israel, and all local radio and TV stations held special live broadcasts Tuesday.
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