Park City Daily News · 28 July 2013
CP-2013-005
Israel may free Palestinian prisoners
Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh, The Associated Press, Gaza City
Transcribed from the clipping
“In April 1993, Omar Masoud and three accomplices broke into a European aid office in Gaza City, grabbed a young Israeli lawyer working there and stabbed him to death. Israel arrested Masoud a month later and sentenced him to life… Now Masoud, along with dozens of other long-term Palestinian prisoners, is up for release as part of U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempt to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks after five years of diplomatic paralysis… The fate of those held in Israeli jails is an emotionally wrought issue for Palestinians, who view the prisoners as heroes who made personal sacrifices in the struggle for statehood… Israelis tend to view the prisoners as cold-blooded terrorists… In a statement late Saturday, Netanyahu said that a decision to release prisoners is ‘painful to the bereaved families, painful to the people of Israel and very painful for me.’… As of late June, nearly 5,000 Palestinians were being held by Israel.
Masoud’s mother, 70-year-old Tamam, said she is optimistic. ‘I hope everything will work out between Jews and Arabs,’ she said, speaking in her shack in the Shati refugee camp.”
Context added by this archive
Four ordinary Palestinians named in one photograph, three generations of them, and both views of the prisoners set out in the same column.
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"Israel may free Palestinian prisoners," Park City Daily News, 28 July 2013, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2013-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2013-005
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