The considerable outrage on display ahead of Monday’s release of Palestinian prisoners took on an odd sense of normalcy. As the list of the third batch of 26 prisoners was made public, the reactions of anger began anew as Israelis were forced to revisit the heinous crimes of the soon-to-be-free inmates.
All of the prisoners on the list, save three, were convicted of murdering Israeli civilians, soldiers or Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel. In a press release Saturday night, the Prime Minister’s Office said all of the inmates had been convicted of offenses committed prior to the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1994.
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