Israel Approves Release of Palestinian Prisoners
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Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved  the release of 500 Palestinian prisoners in what Prime Minister  Ariel Sharon called a goodwill gesture to bolster new  Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and build mutual trust.
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In a gesture to Abbas, Israel plans to release 500 Palestinian prisoners this week.
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JERUSALEM - Israel decided Sunday to release 170 Palestinian prisoners, hours after ending a two-day incursion into the southern Gaza Strip.
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Israel released 159 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to the new Palestinian leadership.
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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 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 release 170Palestinian prisoners to show goodwill ahead of a Palestinian election and as a gesture to Egypt for freeing a convicted Israeli spy.
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KITSIYOT, Israel  - Israel released dozens of Palestinian prisoners on Friday as part of a U.S.-backed deal to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas following the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas Islamists last month.
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Israel'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 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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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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Israeli Cabinet ministers on Thursday approved the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners and a military pullout from the West Bank town of Jericho within days in overtures intended to improve the climate ahead of next week's Mideast summit.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel yesterday approved the release of 170 Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture to Egypt and encouragement to interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in hopes of future negotiations.
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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Israel will be prepared to release many jailed Palestinians, including long-serving prisoners, in return for a soldier militants seized in June, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.
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The Israeli government yesterday said it would free 170 jailed Palestinians in a gesture of gratitude for Egypt&#39;s recent release of an Israeli Arab imprisoned for spying.
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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of about 90 Palestinian prisoners, officials said, the latest move by Israel to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a "serious release" of thousands of security detainees.