Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett. (Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post)

The government must not release Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to open peace talks, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday, as Almagor Terror Victims sent messages to ministers in the same vein.

“Not one murderer can be let out,” Bennett told Army Radio. “This isn’t a gesture; it’s a disgrace.”

Bennett asked “why should we have to give over murderers in order to receive the dubious privilege of being able to negotiate with Abbas?”

The Bayit Yehudi leader emphasized that the prisoners are people who murdered Israelis and other Jews, including children.

“I don’t believe that Netanyahu will release murderers just so he can start negotiations,” Bennett added.

Also Sunday, ministers received a strange phone call, ostensibly from Palestinian Prisoners Minister Issa Karaka.

“I want to praise your prime minister. It’s important for him to have a meeting with our leader, but for that meeting to happen, our friends have to return home,” the recording says. “It’s true that they killed and murdered, but it was for our goal, for our country, Palestine. So they killed a few Jews. What’s the big deal? All they want is to return home with a college degree. What are we asking for? Just a few – 120, no fewer. Thank you Netanyahu.”

The pre-recorded phone call, sent by Almagor Terror Victims, featured an actor impersonating Karaka.

Almagor launched a campaign in recent weeks to prevent the government from releasing Palestinian prisoners as a gesture in peace talks, following reports that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace plan demands that Israel release over 100 Palestinian prisoners arrested before the Oslo Accords were signed.

The organization’s director Lt.-Col. (res.) Meir Indor has visited several ministers and political parties, as well as Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, presenting them with a list of the 120 terrorists Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas requested be released, and who each of those terrorists killed.

The list comes in a booklet entitled “Have we gone crazy?” featuring photos of the terrorists and their victims.