The Palestinian Authority released a leading Hamas spokesman after jailing him for 21 months for speaking out against the peace process. A Hamas official was quoted as saying that the release of Abdel Aziz Rantissi resulted from the current impasse in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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