the release of terrorists will not promote the diplomatic process but will harm the security of Israeli citizens.
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Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left, and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, center, attend a ceremony to mark two years since the Second Lebanon war, at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Monday, July 21, 2008. Last week on Wednesday Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas handed over two black coffins Wednesday containing the bodies of two Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, and Israel freed the killer of an man and his 4-year-old child, part of a dramatic prisoner swap that promised to boost the radical Islamic militia and close a painful chapter from Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon.
Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attend a ceremony to mark two years since the Second Lebanon war, at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Monday, July 21, 2008. Last week on Wednesday Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas handed over two black coffins Wednesday containing the bodies of two Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, and Israel freed the killer of an man and his 4-year-old child, part of a dramatic prisoner swap that promised to boost the radical Islamic militia and close a painful chapter from Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon.
Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attend a ceremony to mark two years since the Second Lebanon war, at the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Monday, July 21, 2008. Last week on Wednesday Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas handed over two black coffins Wednesday containing the bodies of two Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, and Israel freed the killer of an man and his 4-year-old child, part of a dramatic prisoner swap that promised to boost the radical Islamic militia and close a painful chapter from Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon.
An Israeli soldier looks at a flag with an image of captured soldier Eldad Regev, as friends and family gather on the second anniversary of his capture in the northern Israeli village of Zarit, on the border with southern Lebanon, July on 12, 2008. Friends and family of Israeli soldiers Regev and Ehud Goldwasser gathered to mark the second anniversary of their capture in a cross border raid by Lebanese Hezbollah militants in 2006. Hezbollah captured the two Israelis in the raid on July 12, 2006 that sparked a devastating 34-day war with Israel that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
Israelis hold up flags with an image of captured soldier Eldad Regev, as friends and family gathered on the second anniversary of his capture in the northern Israeli village of Zarit, on the border with Lebanon, July on 12, 2008. Friends and family of Israeli soldiers Regev and Ehud Goldwasser gathered to mark the second anniversary of their capture in a cross border raid by Hezbollah militants in 2006. Hezbollah captured the two Israelis in the raid on July 12, 2006 that sparked a devastating 34-day war with Israel that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
Israelis hold up flags with an image of captured soldier Eldad Regev, as friends and family gathered on the second anniversary of his capture in the northern Israeli village of Zarit, on the border with Lebanon, July on 12, 2008. Friends and family of Israeli soldiers Regev and Ehud Goldwasser gathered to mark the second anniversary of their capture in a cross border raid by Hezbollah militants in 2006. Hezbollah captured the two Israelis in the raid on July 12, 2006 that sparked a devastating 34-day war with Israel that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
An Israeli man speaks to an Israeli soldier as he holds a flag showing captured soldier Eldad Regev as friends and family gathered for a memorial at the site in the northern Israeli village of Zarit, on the border with Lebanon, Saturday, July 12, 2008. Friends and family of Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser gathered to mark the second anniversary of their capture in a cross border raid by Hezbollah militants in 2006. The soldiers are expected to be returned to Israel in an upcoming prisoner swap with Hezbollah, Israeli and Lebanese sources said.
In parallel to the release of prisoners as a gesture to Abu Mazen (Abbas), Israel has to systematically target Hamas and terror organisations
Releasing prisoners time and again only weakens the chances of concluding negotiations for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit
We welcome any decision to free Palestinian prisoners from the occupation's prisons
Hamas will do whatever is necessary to free as many prisoners as possible from all the Palestinian factions.