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Government spokesman Mark Regev said the prisoners were to be released next week "as a goodwill gesture" toward Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas. Virtually all of the prisoners to be freed belong to groups linked to Fatah, the secular movement led by Abbas. The list does not include members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, both of which Israel brands as terrorist organisations. Most of those to be released are being held for minor security offences, but two are veteran prisoners implicated in deadly attacks on Israelis in the 1970s.
(Deutsche Welle)
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