| Submit your comments on this article |
| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| Israel begins yet another Paleostinian prisoner release |
| 2013-08-14 |
| [BBC.CO.UK] Israel has begun the process of freeing a group of 26 Paleostinian prisoners, whose release was agreed as part of the deal to restart peace talks. The prisoners, most of whom carried out attacks more than 20 years ago, were driven out of a jail in white minibuses with tinted windows. About half are being taken to Gazoo, and half to the West Bank. Paleostinian and Israeli negotiators began direct talks two weeks ago for the first time in three years. Another round of talks is due to begin in Jerusalem on Wednesday. Israel agreed to release the 26 long-term prisoners as the first of 104 Paleostinian and Israeli Arab inmates to be freed over the next few months. Failed legal moves The men were driven away from the Ayalon prison complex late at night in vehicles with darkened windows to avoid any display of triumphalism. Small groups of Israeli protesters had gathered outside the prison and jeered as the buses drove off. Relatives and friends of the freed men have gathered on the frontiers with Gazoo and the West Bank, with bands playing bagpipes parading through flag-waving crowds. |
| Posted by:Fred |