Palestinians Demand Release of Prisoners

[maddezmom]

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Saturday's demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza marked an annual day of solidarity with prisoners.

In Gaza City, parents carried pictures of their imprisoned sons and daughters. Actors dressed as Israeli soldiers beat shackled and blindfolded Palestinian ``prisoners,'' using the back of a truck draped with barbed wire as their stage.

Leaders of the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers as bargaining chips in future prisoner swaps with Israel - a tactic successfully used by the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.

``There is no policy except the policy of kidnapping soldiers so they can be exchanged with our prisoners,'' said Abdullah Shami, the Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza. ``This tactic will be used by all the Palestinian factions.''

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more:http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3988090,00.html

[drdon326]

1. Add that to their endless demands.....

Exactly when do the palestinians ...

acknowledge Israel's right to exist?

stop funding terrorists ??

arrest terrorists ??

dismantle the terrorist infrastructure ??

eh....technicalities.

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. I wonder how they would like a similar response

Any kidnappings would be countered by Israel taking family members of known IJ and Hamas operatives?

This is why Israel didn't capture that murdering bastard Yassin. It prevented this tactic by these monstrous butchers.