Olmert says Israel to free 250 Palestinian prisoners
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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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JERUSALEM -- In an apparent effort to bolster the standing of the moderate interim Palestinian government led by Mahmoud Abbas, Israel on Monday freed 159 Palestinian prisoners.
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Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners on Monday, in a move the Palestinian leadership welcomed while calling for the releases of thousands more who remain jailed.
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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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Israel&#39;s cabinet agreed on Sunday to free dozens of Palestinian prisoners in a move meant to show goodwill ahead of elections to replace Yasser Arafat, officials said.
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Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a &quot;serious release&quot; of thousands of security detainees.
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ISRAEL released almost 160 Palestinian prisoners today as an act of goodwill towards Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak but Palestinians dismissed the move as a public relations gimmick.
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Israel's cabinet agreed on Sunday to release 250 Palestinian prisoners in the latest of a series of attempts to strengthen Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas's seizure of the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday and promised to speed the release of 250 prisoners in a bid to shore up his West Bank administration against rival Hamas Islamists.
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Israel will free 250 Palestinian prisoners later this week -- nearly all of them from the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a spokesman for the Israeli prime minister said Monday.
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Israel has agreed to free 170 Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to Egypt for freeing a convicted Israeli spy and to show goodwill ahead of a Palestinian election, officials said on Sunday.
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In a gesture to Abbas, Israel plans to release 500 Palestinian prisoners this week.
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The Israeli cabinet agreed Sunday morning to free dozens of Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture ahead of the upcoming Palestinian presidential elections, officials said.
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BEERSHEBA, Israel  - Israel began the release of  159 Palestinian prisoners on 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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Israel on Sunday signaled it will consider freeing some Palestinian prisoners involved in attacks on Israelis, defusing a crisis with the Palestinian Authority ahead of a historic Mideast summit.
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Israel approves a plan to free hundreds of detained Palestinians and to pull troops out of West Bank cities.
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Israel agreed on Sunday to free another 90 Palestinian prisoners to try to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood, officials said.