Israel has released five Palestinian prisoners as part of a swap deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla group that brought the bodies of two Israeli soldiers home.
The two Israelis were killed in a Hezbollah cross-border raid that triggered a 34-day war in 2006. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is due to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday, a week after Olmert announced he would resign over a corruption Israel buries soldiers returned in prisoner swap ...
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Missile from Gaza kills Israeli woman ... scandal. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the two men would discuss final-status issues in the peace negotiations, Israeli checkpoints and closures in the occupied West Bank, and the fate of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
(Deutsche Welle)
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