Israel must free all Palestinian prisoners

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 30, 2023 12:09 am

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: Hamas' armed wing said Saturday it was ready to release the hostages it abducted during its shock attack on October 7 if Israel freed all Palestinians held in its prisons.

'The price to pay for the large number of enemy hostages in our hands is to empty the [Israeli] prisons of all Palestinian prisoners,' Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida said in a statement broadcast by the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa television channel.

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