Israel Says It Will Release 170 Palestinians to Please Egypt
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Israel agreed Sunday to release 170 Palestinian prisoners in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described as a good-will offering to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  -- Israel released more than 250 Palestinian prisoners Friday in an attempt to bolster moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with Hamas.
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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 Israel on Sunday agreed to release 170 Palestinian prisoners in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described as a goodwill offering to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
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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 goodwill gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the moderate Fatah faction.
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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 has agreed to release 170 Palestinian prisoners to show goodwill ahead of a Palestinian election and as a gesture to Egypt for freeing a convicted Israeli spy, officials said Sunday.
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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'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 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.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - 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.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday Israel would start freeing 250 Palestinian prisoners by the end of the week in a bid to shore up Abbas's new government against Hamas.
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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'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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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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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.