A committee of Israeli government ministers is meeting to decide which Palestinian prisoners will be freed in the first round of peace talks. The first 26 prisoners, out of a list of 104, are set to be freed this week, a day before negotiations resume Wednesday in Jerusalem. Sunday’s meeting will take place without Prime…
Israel said on Sunday it was marketing nearly 1,200 new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, just two days before a planned release of long-serving Palestinian prisoners. Israel has made a major push on settlements since the resumption on July 30, after a three-year break, of U.S.-brokered talks on Palestinian statehood. Israeli…
The High Court of Justice was asked on Wednesday to reject a petition to overturn a government decision to release 104 Palestinian prisoners. In a response to a petition filed by the Almagor Terror Victims Association against freeing the prisoners, many of whom were responsible for terror attacks that killed and maimed Israelis, the State…
The 104 prisoners that will be be released from Israeli prison in accordance with Sunday’s cabinet decision, were responsible, all told, for the deaths of 55 civilians, 15 soldiers, one female tourist and dozens of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel. Of the prisoners, whose names appear in a list published by the Palestinian Prisoner…
Israeli ministers on Sunday are expected to approve the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails since before the Oslo Accords were signed, and not 82 prisoners as was previously stated. A government official said that the number of prisoners to be released within the framework of renewed negotiations with the Palestinians…
There’s a cell in Jerusalem’s Rimonim Prison that has two inmates. One was convicted of selling dozens of kilograms of dangerous drugs, and sentenced to six years. The second is Zaki Sabah, 54, who sells bagelach (a long, oval shaped bread) and was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for not paying municipal fines imposed on…
Israelis discovered early this month, to their surprise, that in one of its prisons there is a second Prisoner X held in complete secrecy. He is been dubbed X2 in the Israeli media. The various security agencies have already started accusing one another of leaking the case. The sheer existence of Prisoner X2 was considered…
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called the new ‘Prisoner X2’ case an “extremely severe incident” but maintained that Israel was acting within legal means. During a committee’s meeting Wednesday morning, Lieberman criticized publication of the affair, but added that such arrests are being supervised: “Following all the talk about prisoners X, Y and Z,…
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