Israel frees detained Palestinian deputy PM
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KAFR QASSEM CHECKPOINT, West Bank  - Israeli   authorities on Wednesday released Palestinian Deputy Prime   Minister Naser al-Shaer, who was among Hamas officials detained   after Gazan gunmen abducted an Israeli soldier.
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Israel released 159 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to the new Palestinian leadership.
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Israel is to free 170 Palestinian prisoners within days after the move wins ministerial committee backing.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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Israel released the top Hamas leader in the West Bank from prison on Thursday after he finished a 28-month sentence for being a member of an outlawed organization.
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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, Israel Radio said on Sunday.
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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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Witnesses say Palestinian gunmen have freed a senior member of the Palestinian security services, hours after abducting him in 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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Israeli authorities decided on  Wednesday to let a jailed Palestinian revolt leader out of his  isolation cell on Wednesday in what appeared to be a goodwill  gesture ahead of Palestinian elections, security sources said.
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Israel on Tuesday captured a top Hamas militant accused of ordering and planning suicide bombings that killed 55 Israelis, the military said.
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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of frozen tax funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a step to bolster the moderate Palestinian leader against the Islamic militant group Hamas, Israel Radio reported.
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Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners to boost ties between the Jewish state and Fatah party leader and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, an Israeli official told CNN.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel reached a deal with Shimon Peres yesterday to name the opposition leader his senior deputy, clearing a key obstacle to a unity government able to abandon the occupied Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military released a former Palestinian Cabinet minister swept up in a West Bank raid in May, saying yesterday that he had agreed to renounce his Hamas membership and would no longer hold positions in the militant Islamic group.