GAZA CITY, GAZA - AUGUST 25: International peace activists and Palestinians shout for the release of Palestinians held as prisoners in Israeli jails, during a weekly protest calling for the release of Arab and Palestinian prisoners, at the court yard of the International Red Cross headquarters on August 25 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Israel holds an estimated 11,000 Palestinian prisoners. Israel has released 198 Palestinian prisoners, many of them members of his Fatah faction, on Monday, In what Israel has called a bid to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been weakened by last year's takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas Islamists. Getty Images logo Getty Images 15 months ago

GAZA CITY, GAZA - AUGUST 25: International peace activists and Palestinians shout for the release of Palestinians held as prisoners in Israeli jails, during a weekly protest calling for the release of Arab and Palestinian prisoners, at the court yard of the International Red Cross headquarters on August 25 2008 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Israel holds an estimated 11,000 Palestinian prisoners. Israel has released 198 Palestinian prisoners, many of them members of his Fatah faction, on Monday, In what Israel has called a bid to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been weakened by last year's takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas Islamists.

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  12. Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (R) gives a speech on October 4, 2009 during a reception at his office in Gaza City for Roudah Habib (L), the final Palestinian woman prisoner set free by Israel as part of a breakthrough swap with the Hamas movement for a video of its soldier held in Gaza for more than three years. Habib was released into Gaza via the Erez crossing, where she was greeted by relatives and friends before being escorted to Haniya's office, Habib's sister told.
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