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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: July 3, 2006 |
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Children of Palestinian prisoners called for a deal Sunday under which Israel would free their fathers and Palestinian militants would release an Israeli soldier being held hostage.
The children also urged Aviva Shalit, the mother of the Israeli captive, 19-year-old Cpl. Gilad Shalit, to understand the grief they have suffered by having relatives taken into custody.
At a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, several of the children read statements addressed to Mrs. Shalit, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Mubarak's government is leading negotiations aimed at persuading Palestinian militants who captured Cpl. Shalit near the Gaza-Israeli border on June 25 to free him.
Israeli forces have invaded Gaza in an effort to find Shalit or to force the militants to free him.
"We want you to care about our fathers the same as you do about the Israeli soldier," said Ansar Bayoud, 13, son of Yousef Bayoud, a Palestinian detained in the Israeli prison camp of Ketziot in southern Israel.
Eman Abu Shalbak, 13, the daughter of Mohammed Abu-Shalbak, another prisoner there, said to Mrs. Shalit: "We know that you are so eager to have your son back in your lap, eager to hold him, to know anything about him and this is your right. But could you stop for a while and think of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in your jails?" |
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