Al Aqsa militants break out of West Bank prison

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Al Aqsa militants break out of West Bank prison

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NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) — Twelve Palestinian militants
escaped from a Palestinian-run prison in the northern West
Bank city of Nablus overnight, Palestinian security officials
said on Saturday.

The detainees, members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an
armed group loosely tied to Palestinian president Mahmud
Abbas's Fatah party, were wanted by the Israeli army, the
officials said.

They had been detained in the Jneid prison under a July 2007
agreement with Israel that allows militants to surrender their
weapons and serve a three-month period of detention in
exchange for amnesty.

"We left the prison because of the aggression on the part of
masked members of the national security forces against the
detainees. There were scuffles and then we left," one of the
detainees, Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh, told AFP.

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1. Just one big happy party

of masked militants, terrorists and their supporters.

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2. also from the article

"We gave up our weapons according to an agreement but we received nothing in return," he added.

"They told us if you give up your weapons and spend three months in jail, there will be an amnesty and the Israeli army will stop its operations in Nablus but nothing happened."

Nablus governor Jamal al-Muhaisen urged the men to return to prison, saying their lives were in danger.

"They are out of prison now and their lives are in danger because of the Israelis. If they want to come back they are welcome but we won't let them move freely or carry weapons," Muhaisen told AFP.

Fourteen members of the same militant group escaped from the prison on February 21 before turning themselves in the following day. They said the breakout was in protest at prison conditions and an Israeli decision to extend their detention from three months to six.

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3. The devil is in the details. One side is supposed to keep to an agreement that Israel cannot. nt