Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements that his government will pay heavy price to free Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza 'bear nothing new,' a Hamas official said on Thursday. 'Hamas is not in a hurry to finalize the prisoners' exchange,' Ayman Taha, Gaza- based Hamas official told Xinhua. 'The German mediator who brokers the talks have not handed us any new offers except the one we recently turned down.' 'Netanyahu is talking about an old offer that we had rejected,' he added. In a televised speech Thursday, Netanyahu said Israel would accept Hamas' demands to free 1,000 prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier Hamas holds hostage in Gaza since 2006. However, Netanyahu said that the prisoners who pose a threat to Israel's security would be exiled from their homes in the West Bank and those who were involved in killing many Israelis will not be freed. But for Hamas, it is impossible to give up any demand, Taha said, explaining that the German mediator who led negotiations in 2009 between Hamas and Israel had informed the Islamic movement about Israel's conditions that involve expulsion and keeping those who killed many Israelis in jail and Hamas rejected these ' conditions.' The controversy between Hamas and Israel focuses on a list of 450 names of prisoners serving long sentences. Hamas presented the list and insisted not to remove any of the names in the list. 