ISRAEL FREES PALESTINIANS BEFORE RICE VISIT
25 august 2008
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israel freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians on Monday — including a militant mastermind from the 1970s — in a goodwill gesture just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began her latest peace mission to the region.The prisoners received a hero's welcome upon their return to the West Bank, where thousands of people joined celebrations at the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and elsewhere throughout the West Bank.
"We will not rest until the prisoners are freed and the jails are empty," Abbas told the cheering crowd.
The prisoners arrived in Ramallah after being released at an Israeli military checkpoint near Jerusalem. The prisoners, some waving black-and-white checkered keffiyeh headdresses as they stepped off Israeli buses, kissed the ground before boarding Palestinian vehicles.Among the 198 Palestinians freed was Said al-Atba, who served 31 years of a life sentence for masterminding a 1977 market bombing that killed one woman and wounded dozens others in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv.
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Israel freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians on Monday — including a militant mastermind from the 1970s — in a goodwill gesture just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began her latest peace mission to the region.The prisoners received a hero's welcome upon their return to the West Bank, where thousands of people joined celebrations at the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and elsewhere throughout the West Bank.
"We will not rest until the prisoners are freed and the jails are empty," Abbas told the cheering crowd.
The prisoners arrived in Ramallah after being released at an Israeli military checkpoint near Jerusalem. The prisoners, some waving black-and-white checkered keffiyeh headdresses as they stepped off Israeli buses, kissed the ground before boarding Palestinian vehicles.Among the 198 Palestinians freed was Said al-Atba, who served 31 years of a life sentence for masterminding a 1977 market bombing that killed one woman and wounded dozens others in Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv.
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