U.S. says Israel plans to release Palestinian prisoners on December30


  • World
  • Saturday, 28 Dec 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel has informed the United States of plans to release the next group of Palestinian prisoners on December 30 under a U.S.-brokered peace plan, the State Department said on Friday.

"Although we had expected the release to occur on December 29, we have been informed that technical issues made it necessary to do the release a day later," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.

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