Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel did not violate the provisions of the Wye accord dealing with the release of Palestinian prisoners. The Palestinian Authority is complaining that the majority of prisoners freed by Israel over the weekend were common criminals and that the U.S.-brokered agreement stated that all 250 of those released should be political prisoners. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said in a statement that the United States was unaware of any violation of the accord regarding the releases. Meanwhile, some Palestinian prisoners, angry at not having been freed, began a hunger strike.
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