Almagor Holds Protests Against Release of Palestinian Prisoners with “Blood on Their Hands”

Yonah Jeremy Bob; Daniel K. Eisenbud

Almagor Holds Protests Against Release of Palestinian Prisoners with “Blood on Their Hands”

Noon showdown to occur before the High Court of Justice as the Almagor Terror Victims Association attempt a last ditch effort to stop Palestinian prisoner release that includes known murderers.

The Jerusalem Post

2013-08-11


Israelis wearing keffiyehs hold up hands covered in fake blood protest prisoner release on July 28 (Photo: REUTERS)

Leading into a noon showdown before the High Court of Justice, the Almagor Terror Victims Association on Sunday was currently holding a protest and march on Mount Herzl against the release of 104 of the worst Palestinian prisoners with “blood on their hands,” planned to take place on Tuesday.

The highly controversial prisoner release was decided on recently by the government as part of a last good will gesture required for restarting the peace process with the Palestinians for the first time in years.

Beginning around 10:00 a.m., the protesters began marching, carrying black flags and banners.

Almagor Head Meir Indor said that the protests would continue at the memorial for terror victims and then move on to the High Court itself, due to hear Almagor’s petition to block the release.

The expected release of 26 prisoners this week will constitute the first of four stages in releasing 104 Palestinian prisoners who were incarcerated for attacks that took place before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.

The agreement to release prisoners as a precondition to peace talks has been highly controversial and has incited the worries of many Israelis.

“This is not a political issue for me; it’s a moral one,” said Jeff Daube, director of the Israel office of the Zionist Organization of America, during an Almagor demonstration a couple of weeks ago.

“With the rate of recidivism being what it is, we are virtually assured that this will cost Jewish lives. If these terrorists don’t return to terrorism itself, they will return to aiding and abetting terrorists,” he continued.

“Suicide is not part of my daily routine,” Daube stated.