JERUSALEM - A group representing Israeli victims of Palestinian violence was mounting a court challenge against the planned release Friday of 256 prisoners, and a Palestinian Cabinet minister criticized the gesture as inadequate.
Israeli Cabinet ministers on Tuesday approved the list of Palestinian prisoners to be freed in a gesture of support for moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
In a separate development, Israel on Tuesday freed Nasser Shaer of Hamas, the education minister in the Cabinet dismissed by Abbas after the Gaza takeover. Shaer was arrested in May and held in administrative detention, which is imprisonment without trial.
Shaer told …
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