Israel to release 1st group of Palestinian prisoners

Jeffrey Heller, Reuters, Jerusalem

Transcribed from the clipping

“JERUSALEM — Israel named 26 Palestinians on Monday it will free from jail this week under a deal enabling U.S.-backed peace talks to resume. But the good will gesture was clouded by new plans to expand Israeli settlements that the United Nations and European Union condemned as illegal and that the Palestinians said were aimed at provoking them to pull out of the negotiations… ‘Those who do these things are determined to undermine the peace negotiations, are determined to force people like us to leave the negotiating table,’ Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said… Eduardo del Buey, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said: ‘Settlements in the occupied territories are illegal, they have been and continue to be illegal.’ Mark Regev, a spokesman for Netanyahu, said the new construction would take place in areas that Israel intends to keep in any peace agreement. ‘This in no way changes the final map of peace. It changes nothing,’ he said. Some 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem amid 2.5 million Palestinians.”

Photograph caption

The mother, left, of Palestinian inmate Ateya Abu Moussa, pictured in poster and held by Israel for years, reacts Monday with her sister after hearing news of his expected release. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters photo.

Context added by this archive

The prisoner is named in the caption. His mother, who is the photograph, is not.

Cite this item

"Israel to release 1st group of Palestinian prisoners," Chicago Tribune, 13 August 2013. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2013-007. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2013-007

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