The Islamic Hamas movement said on Tuesday that exchanging prisoners with Israel became an honor issue that no one can make concessions on.

"The issue of the prisoners became an issue of trust like the issue of Jerusalem and refugees," said Mushier al-Massri, a Hamas lawmaker based in the Gaza Strip.

He said that Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by the Hamas-led Gaza militant groups, "will not see the light before our prisoners of high sentences see it."

Shalit was captured by the militants in Gaza in a cross-border raid in 2006. Hamas demands to swap him for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and insists to choose the names of the first 450 people who would be freed.

Israel accused Hamas of hardening its conditions at the last moment before reaching an agreement through Egyptian mediators.

To put more pressure on Hamas, Israel endorsed several procedures to apply more restrictions on jailed Hamas members.

Al-Massri said the new Israeli restrictions against the prisoners "will not succeed in forcing the resistance to change their mind or conditions."

"The resistance doesn't know concessions and will be capturing more soldiers to free all the Palestinian prisoners," he added.