Israel set to approve Palestinian prisoner release
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's cabinet was set on Sunday to approve the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners in the latest of a series of bids to strengthen Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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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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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Israel is 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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Israel is to release 170 Palestinian prisoners after Egypt freed a convicted Israeli spy, officials say. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s office said the prisoners would be released within days.
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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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JERUSALEM: Israeli prison authorities have received orders to prepare for the eventual internment of hundreds of settlers opposed to Ariel Sharon&#39;s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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A special ministerial committee on Sunday decided to release 170 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli prisons. Of the group, 120 prisoners are members of Fatah and 50 were arrested for illegally residing within Israel.
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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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KITSIYOT, Israel  - Israel began releasing 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.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Cabinet ministers accepted a plan yesterday to gradually withdraw soldiers from five West Bank cities and eventually release about 900 Palestinian prisoners as part of a package of measures to be presented to Palestinian leaders at a summit next week aimed at reviving the long-stagnant peace process.
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Israeli leaders approved on Thursday  a troop pullback from West Bank cities and a plan to release  Palestinian prisoners, measures crucial to the success of an  Israeli summit with the Palestinians in Egypt next week.
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Israeli leaders approved on Thursday  a troop pullback from West Bank cities and the release of 900  Palestinian prisoners, measures crucial to the success of a  summit with the Palestinians in Egypt next 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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Israel begins releasing Palestinian inmates to relieve overcrowding in its detention centres.
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Israel Thursday approved a troop  pullback from West Bank cities and the release of 900  Palestinian prisoners, measures crucial to the success of a  summit with the Palestinians in Egypt next week.
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Israel on Thursday approved a troop  pullback from West Bank cities and the release of 900  Palestinian prisoners, measures crucial to the success of a  summit with the Palestinians in Egypt next week.
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Israel on Sunday approved the release of 170 Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture toward Egypt and the new Palestinian leadership, officials said, but a Palestinian official dismissed the Israeli move as &quot;cosmetic.