Prisoner swap gives Palestinians joy

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A6381AB8-21AE-4E43-B8FB-1FCA7F9D509F.htm

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"Israel has released 400 Palestinian prisoners into the West Bank and Gaza Strip as part of the German-mediated prisoner swap agreement with the Lebanese Islamic movement, Hizb Allah, reached earlier this week.

There are still as many as 7500 Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli jails and detention centers on charges of resisting the Israeli occupation.

None the less, the release of the 400 prisoners on Thursday seems to have given a modicum of joy and glimmer of hope to a people harshly tormented by more than forty months of unmitigated Israeli repression.

Indeed, from the early morning hours, hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children from the southern West Bank headed for the Tarqumya Junction, 20 km west of Al-Khalil (Hebron), to receive their loved ones to be freed from Israeli prisons."