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256 Freed Security Prisoners Start Arriving at Beitunya, by Rebecca Anna Stoil (Jerusalem Post)
Excerpts;
256 Palestinian security prisoners started arriving at the Beitunya checkpoint, between Givat Ze’ev and Ramallah, at about 10 a.m. Friday morning after being released from Ketziot Prison in the western Negev.
Head of the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, Brigadier General Yoav Mordehai, met with senior Fatah official Hussein al-Sheikh and Palestinian Authority Minister for Prisoners Affairs Ashraf Ajrami at the checkpoint, ahead of the prisoners’ arrival.
Recycling, Israel Style, by Jason Gold (Israel national News)
30 Terror Attacks Perpetrated by Terrorists Freed From Prison, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Police Trying to Prevent Nationalist Protest [Against Release of Terrorists]
Ministers Discussed Future Release Deals, by Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
Teenage Murder Victim’s Father Slams PA Terrorist Release, by Hana Levi Julian (Israel National News)
High Court Rejects Petition Against Early Release of Terrorists, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)
Meanwhile, some 20 families of terror victims and Jewish security prisoners held a protest against the prisoner release in front of the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem.
The protesters voiced their opposition to the gesture and called for Jewish prisoners to be released first, Israel Radio reported.
Friday morning’s prisoner release was somewhat delayed after one of the prisoners was required to undergo additional security and legal checks.
However, after the short delay, the detainees were transferred to Beitunya, after which they boarded buses destined for Ramallah where they were set to be welcomed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad and other PA ministers.
The High Court of Justice rejected a petition submitted by the Almagor Terror Victims Association in which the group argued that “the cabinet should have no access to anything connected with convicted prisoners.”
Attorney Naftali Wertzberger, representing Almagor, argued before the court that the “use of prisoners [for political gain] who have been sentenced in a court and jailed is unlawful. The idea that prisoners, just because they belong to Fatah, merit an end-of-season price like this is just too much.”
Related report:
Justice Elyakim Rubinstein disagreed with the High Court majority who rejected the petition against the early release of the terrorists and “felt that a temporary injunction against the release of the Palestinian Authority terrorists should be granted.” He wrote;
“In my view, with all due respect to the efforts made by the state’s attorneys in a short time-frame, we have not received the necessary full explanations in this sensitive matter….”
Justice Rubinstein also cited;
The serious crimes for which the terrorists on the release list were jailed, calling them “among the most serious and severe offenses.” He noted that, in a similar case from over two years ago, terrorists were released from jail in the hope that the PA would thus be encouraged to combat terrorism; however, the Justice asked, “Has the Palestinian Authority government acted against terrorism during these two and a half years in such a way that there may have been some purpose in that previous prisoner release?”
Also cited, in the context of Justice Rubinstein’s dissenting ruling, was a report written by The Almagor Terrorist Victims Association which stated;
Two thirds of freed terrorists returned to terrorism after their release. Attacks by such freed terrorists over a seven-year period took the lives of 179 Israelis, according a statement released by the organization on Wednesday. The head of the Justice Ministry’s Amnesty Department, Emmy Palmor, said that the recidivism rate among Arab terrorist prisoners granted amnesty and released by Israel was about 17%.
Note:
Oops, one of the terrorists failed to sign the “no-return to terrorism” contract and remained in prison. 255 terrorists were actually released. MB
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