Jordan gets 10 of its prisoners from Israel
Jordan-Israel, Politics, 11/26/2003

A source at the Jordanian foreign ministry announced that ten prisoners will be released by the Israeli authorities in the context of negotiations with the Jordanian government have arrived in Jordan yesterday. This is in the context of negotiations with the Jordanian government on the fate of 81 Jordanians held by Israel.

The official explained that a Jordanian bus will wait for them at the Israeli side of the border and take them to the Jordanian side, where they are completing their papers officially in order to be received by their families.

The Presidency of the Israeli government announced two days earlier the release of the ten prisoners as a good intention gesture towards Jordan on the fall of Eid al-Fiter (holiday), without relating this deal to the prisoners exchange deal between Israel and the Lebanese Hizbullah party.

According to information of the Jordanian foreign ministry, the released prisoners are Taleb Mashni, Haidar Rasheed, Osama Salah, Nassar Abu Saada, Amer Abu Ghreiban, Nuhad Da'as, Muhammad Ghanana, Mousa Abu Sorour, Ibrahim al-Qernah and Tareq Nabhan.

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