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| Israel freezes visits to Hamas prisoners amid talks over troops’ remains | |
| 2017-06-30 | |
[IsraelTimes] Terror group says move, demanded by politicians and relatives to up pressure as talks stall, is tantamount to declaration of war.
Hamas leaders condemned the move as "the beginning of a war against the prisoners." "We will not allow this decision to stand, whatever the price may be," they said in a statement. An Israeli prison official refused to confirm the policy change. Israel is holding some 150 Hamas security prisoners from Gazoo. In the past, families of Paleostinian inmates have been granted permits to cross from the Gazoo Strip into Israel to visit them. On Tuesday, Channel 1 news reported that Israel and Hamas have been engaged in intensive indirect talks recently over the release of a number of Israeli nationals held captive by the terror group in Gazoo. In addition to returning the missing soldiers, Israel has been seeking to reach a deal with the rulers of the Gazoo Strip to secure the release of three Israeli men who crossed into the coastal territory of their own accord: Avraham Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, as well as Juma Ibrahim Abu Ghanima, whose presence in Gazoo is unconfirmed. The talks, which are being mediated by an unnamed third party, have gathered momentum over the past two weeks, following the return of Hamas’s leader in Gazoo, Yahya Sinwar, from a visit to Egypt earlier this month, the report said. Hamas demands that Israel release all prisoners from the 2011 exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit who were reincarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in 2014 when three Israeli teens were kidnapped in the West Bank (it later emerged that they had been killed almost immediately) before any advancement in negotiations between the parties can take place. | |
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