{"id":46593,"date":"2013-10-30T19:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=46593"},"modified":"2013-10-30T19:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:50:44","slug":"israel-releases-palestinian-prisoners-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=46593","title":{"rendered":"Israel releases Palestinian prisoners amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/israel-palestine-prisoner-release.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46591\" alt=\"\u053b\u057d\u0580\u0561\u0575\u0565\u056c,\u054a\u0561\u0572\u0565\u057d\u057f\u056b\u0576, \u0562\u0561\u0576\u057f\u0561\u0580\u056f\u0575\u0561\u056c\u0576\u0565\u0580\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/israel-palestine-prisoner-release.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/israel-palestine-prisoner-release.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/israel-palestine-prisoner-release-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/israel-palestine-prisoner-release-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners early Wednesday, part of an agreement that fueled new peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>The released prisoners were the second of four groups &#8212; roughly 100 prisoners &#8212; expected to be freed in a deal cobbled together by the United States to jump-start stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Prison Authority confirmed 21 prisoners were released shortly after midnight in the West Bank and another five were released in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Families of the prisoners were on hand in the West Bank, where cheers went up as buses carrying the prisoners arrived.<\/p>\n<p>But the prison release has angered some Israelis, who protested outside the West Bank prison where the inmates where held before their release.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the decision to free Palestinian prisoners one of the most difficult of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the prisoners&#8217; release, describing it as a &#8220;day of joy.&#8221; But he warned that there would be no peace agreement with Israel until all Palestinian prisoners had been freed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Israel released 26 Palestinian prisoners early Wednesday, part of an agreement that fueled new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[815,3350],"class_list":["post-46593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-israel","tag-prisoners","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}