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Who Are the Palestinian Prisoners Set for Release in Shalit Deal?
(Ha'aretz) Chaim Levinson, Yaniv Kubovich, and Revital Hovel - The list released by the Israel Prison Service on Sunday of the Palestinian prisoners set to be released in exchange for abducted soldier Gilad Shalit include more than 280 Palestinians serving life sentences. More than 100 are serving multiple life sentences for high-casualty suicide bombings they were convicted of helping to plan and implement. Included for release is Nasser Yataima, who was sentenced to 29 life sentences for the 2002 bombing of a Netanya hotel on Passover.