Al Jazeera
Israel has begun the release of a number of Palestinian prisoners in an effort to bolster Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in his power struggle with Hamas.
Ian Domnitz, a spokesman for the prisons authority, said: "We have begun to free 256 prisoners, including six women."
Israeli officials said 85 per cent of the prisoners being released were from the president's Fatah faction.
Among those to be released is Abdel Rahim Malouh, second-in-command of the PFLP, which carried out the assassination of Rehavam Zeevi, an Israeli cabinet minister, in 2001....
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