Fadua Barghouti, wife of jailed Fatah master-terrorist Marwan Barghouti, said that his release was closer than ever in an interview with A-Shams radio in Nazareth. She refused to give details but said: "I trust those who are conducting the negotiations on the Palestinian side, and everyone knows Marwan's release is necessary in view of the crisis in which Palestinians currently live."

Barghouti said that she had recently returned from Lebanon, where she visited the family of Samir Kuntar, a terrorist jailed for the cold-blooded murder of a little Jewish girl and her father 28 years ago. She said Kuntar's release is also "closer than ever."