The New York Times · 9 October 1995

CP-1995-007

20 Jailed Arab Women Say No to Israeli Offer of Freedom

Serge Schmemann

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“Imprisoned Palestinian women refused to accept a presidential pardon, charging that Israel had reneged on a pledge to free all female Palestinian prisoners.”

Context added by this archive

Twenty women decline their own release because it is not all of them. Printed as a hitch in the implementation of an agreement; it is one of the clearest acts of collective discipline in the archive.

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"20 Jailed Arab Women Say No to Israeli Offer of Freedom," The New York Times, 9 October 1995. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1995-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1995-007

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