Prisoner Release Key to Summit Success - Palestinians
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Palestinian officials were working with  Israeli counterparts on Saturday to resolve a dispute over the  release of Palestinian prisoners that threatens to cloud a  summit next week seen as crucial to ending over four years of  violence.
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JERUSALEM  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved the release of 170 Palestinian prisoners as he looked to bolster the new moderate PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas and cement his own hold on power by finalising arrangements for a new broad-based
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Israel agreed Sunday to release desperately needed funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a day before the moderate leader planned to meet the heads of Egypt, Israel and Jordan in a summit meant to bolster him in his struggle with Hamas.
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Israel is considering easing criteria for freeing Palestinian prisoners, a move one Israeli official said on Monday could pave the way for the release of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi.
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Releases aimed at bolstering support for Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas coup in Gaza Strip.
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BEERSHEBA, Israel  - Israel began the release of  159 Palestinian prisoners Monday, many of them serving the  final months of their sentences, in a gesture to the new  Palestinian leadership after Yasser Arafat's death.
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A special ministerial committee approved the release of 170 Palestinian prisoners yesterday in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described as a &quot;goodwill gesture&quot; to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, following the release of an Israeli Druze from a Cairo
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Israeli officials approve a list of 250 Palestinian prisoners in its jails expected to be released on Friday.
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JERUSALEM - Israel on Sunday approved the release of dozens of Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture meant to promote reconciliation with Egypt and the new Palestinian leadership, officials said.
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JERUSALEM, July 16 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting here Monday that Israel would proceed with the promised release of 250 Palestinian prisoners later this week, but neither side reported tangible progress in restarting a...
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday he intended to free 250 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah faction.
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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Israel will be prepared to release many Palestinian prisoners, including long-serving inmates, in return for a soldier militants seized last June, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston meets Palestinian President Abbas to thank him for helping secure his release.
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Israel intends to release 900  Palestinian prisoners as part of a package of goodwill measures  it plans to present at a summit with new Palestinian leader  Mahmoud Abbas next week, cabinet sources said Thursday.
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Palestinian minister for prisoners affairs Hisham Abdel Razeq said Monday that the Israeli decision to release 170 Palestinian prisoners was a unilateral step and only for &quot;public relations&quot;.
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The promised release reinforced hopes for a new push to end decades of conflict in the Middle East after Arafat&#39;s death. The prisoner release was agreed at Sharon&#39;s cabinet meeting.
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JERUSALEM -- Thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel ended an 18-day hunger strike on Thursday, with representatives saying that Israel had agreed to meet demands for improving their conditions.