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87 Palestinians freed

October 01, 2007

The move comes ahead of a US-backed conference on Palestinian statehood and is intended to shore up the secular Palestinian leader against rivals, Hamas, following the Islamists' seizure of the Gaza Strip in June. The prisoner release was delayed for several hours by what Israeli officials cited as a "technical hitch."