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Article: ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Oct 1 - Israel Frees 87 Palestinian Prisoners.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- October 6, 2007
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Israel begins releasing 87 jailed Palestinians in a bid to shore up President Mahmoud Abbas against rival Hamas Islamists and ahead of a US-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood. The prisoners, members of Abbas's Fatah or smaller secular factions, left the desert stockade of Kitsyot and boarded buses bound for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But their departure was held up, with one Israeli official citing logistical problems. The freeing of prisoners is highly emotive for Palestinians, who see their nearly 11,000 brethren held in Israeli jails as fighters for freedom from Israeli occupation. Many Israelis say such amnesties encourage violence by Palestinian ...
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