To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9731 ) 8/17/2005 2:21:14 PM From: paret Respond to of 32591 PA: all wanted terrorists in Gaza free of restrictions, demand Israel release all Gazan terrorists IMRA ^ | 8-17-05 PA: all wanted terrorists in Gaza free of restrictions, demand Israel release all Gazan terrorists [IMRA: As President Bush and others continue to bend over backwards with their praise for the PA, the PA continues taking measures to insure that terror thrives and instability reigns in post-retreat Gaza] PNA Officially Demands Israel to Release Gaza Strip Detainees Hamayel: File of 'Wanted and Deported' Activists in Gaza to Be Closed 17/08/2005 Palestine Media Center - PMC [Official PA website] www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=962 The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) said it has officially demanded Israel to release the Gaza Strip detainees and said that the file of the "Wanted and Deported Fighters" in the Gaza Strip will be closed following the Israeli evacuation of the coastal strip, but Israel has yet to confirm the PNA statement. "The Palestinian Authority officially asked Israel to release 650 prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were arrested by the Israeli army during the years of the occupation," Palestinian Minister of Detainee Affairs, Sufian abu Zayda told AFP on Monday. Abu Zayda said that the Palestinian demand is in accordance to the International Law, and that Israel should release all of the Palestinian detainees after its withdrawal. The PNA insists that an end to the Israeli occupation requires that the Jewish state frees all the Palestinian detainees, as well as ceding Israeli control of the Gaza airspace, sea, international border crossings and a safe passage linking the Strip with the West Bank.