Apparently he didn’t see the skeletal-like Gilad Shalit released from a Hamas dungeon yesterday.

(CNS News) — A United Nations watchdog called on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to clarify comments which it said appeared to equate an Israeli soldier abducted and held by terrorists for more than five years with Palestinians serving prison terms for deadly terror attacks.

Speaking in Geneva, Ban told Reuters that he was “very encouraged” by Tuesday’s exchange, in which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit return home from captivity in Hamas-ruled Gaza in exchange for the release of 477 Palestinian convicts from Israeli jails, the first of a total 1,027 prisoners Israel has agreed to free in the negotiated swap.

“I am very encouraged by the prisoner exchange today after many, many years of negotiation,” the news agency quoted Ban as saying. “The United Nations has been calling for [an end to] the unacceptable detention of Gilad Shalit and also the release of all Palestinians whose human rights have been abused all the time.”