The prisoners are demanding that the Israel Prison Service end detention without trial and solitary confinement, increase visitation rights, and improve amenities.
The very ones who spearheaded the campaign to reward Hamas now pin the blame for what they actively advocated on the man they always opposed.
If bill passes, arrested terrorists administrative release instead of pardons; option to be re-arrested if they return to terror.
Readers respond to the police emergency response, prisoner release policies, and a New York opera showing.
The High Court approved a return to the house-demolition policy in possible attempt move focus from gov't responsibility for releasing Palestinian prisoners.
Whatever we do, we need to be prepared to wake up and start all over again, continuing to build despite all the destruction.
The Talmud praises redeeming captives as a great mitzva, superior even to charity, because it liberates a person from the pain of captivity.
Meetings set to take place Friday, after Thursday's talk yielded "no breakthrough," Palestinian source said.
There are reportedly still wide gaps between the sides, with Israel insisting on the deportation of 14 Israeli Arabs to Gaza or abroad.
Marking Palestinian Prisoner Day, PA says its ratification of Geneva Convention makes Israel liable for war crimes over prisoner issue; Israeli officials respond: Entire Palestinian leadership should be indicted.
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