Mastermind of 2002 Netanya hotel bombing on Hamas list for prisoner exchange

[oberliner]

Hamas has recently prepared a list of leading Palestinians held in Israeli prisons that the organization will demand in a possible deal for the exchange of abducted Israel Defense Force soldier Gilad Shalit.

So far, both sides have reached agreement through Egyptian mediation, over the framework of the deal; however they have not finalized the number and identities of the prisoners to be released.

Among those whose release Hamas intends to demand is Abbas Sayed, the mastermind of the massacre at the Park Hotel in Netanya over Passover in 2002, in which 29 civilians were killed.

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/797979.html

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Pathetic. n/t

[cali]

2. I have no problem

with the release of those held in admin detention or for minor crimes. Israel is holding far, far too many Palestinians, but Hamas' demand that a mass murderer be released is repugnant.

[Violet_Crumble]

3. I tend to agree...

I feel very strongly that Palestinians in administrative detention, children, etc should have been released long ago, but no-one with the blood of civilians on their hands should be released at all....