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<p><a href="http://alray.ps/en/index.php?act=post&amp;id=2297" target="_blank"><strong>Al Ray Agencies | Oct 30, 2013</strong></a><br />
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<p>ALRAY, Gaza &#8211; (Israel) freed 26 veteran prisoners (<a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-CTC" target="_blank"><strong><em>Note occpal: see photos here</em></strong></a>) to the occupied West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday, alongside US-brokered peace talks.</p>
<p>Local Maan News Agency reported that Twenty-one prisoners arrived in Ramallah shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, after Israel released them in a gesture to support the peace process. Five others crossed into their native Gaza.</p>
<p>The 21 former prisoners from the West Bank arrived by bus to President Mahmoud Abbas&#8217; compound in Ramallah, where they were met by dignitaries and supporters.</p>
<p>The release of the 26 prisoners was part of a four-stage deal to coincide with the PLO&#8217;s return to peace negotiations in July.</p>
<p>All 26 were convicted of killing Israelis, with most of the attacks occurring before the 1993 Oslo Accords. A first group of 26 prisoners was freed on Aug. 13.</p>
<p>In Ramallah, freed prisoner Riziq Salah from al-Khader near Bethlehem said his happiness to be free was overshadowed by a deep sadness for cellmates who were left behind.</p>
<p>&#8220;I lived with my wife five years but with my cellmates, I have lived 21 years seeing them 24 hours a day,&#8221; he told Palestine TV by telephone.</p>
<p>In Israel, the move to release the second group has sparked tensions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s coalition, and around 2,000 Israelis rallied outside Ofer prison on Monday chanting &#8220;Death to terrorists!&#8221; and raising placards reading: &#8220;Are we crazy? We&#8217;re releasing murderers.&#8221;<br />
Among the demonstrators was Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel, a hardliner from the far-right nationalist Jewish Home party, who vowed to ramp up settlement construction in response to the release.</p>
<p>Media reports suggest Israel is planning to announce the construction of 1,500 new housing units in the coming days, up to two thirds of them in annexed East Jerusalem.</p>
<p>There are still 5,007 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, including 137 administrative detainees, 12 women and 180 children, according to prisoners support group Addameer.</p>
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