The Palestinian Authority has given the United States a list of 80 prisoners that it wants released from Israeli prison, according to a Tuesday-morning report by Kol Yisrael government radio.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told relatives of some of the prisoners at his Ramallah office that he was making efforts for their release. Prisoner Affairs Minister Issa Karaka said, over the weekend, that the prisoners were suffering from chronic or terminal illness and some were in danger of imminent death.