Forum to mull description of prisoner ‘with blood on hands’ JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 23, 2007 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847413482&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will hold a special session on Monday with a team of ministers to examine the option of modifying criteria for the release of prisoners “with blood on their hands.”

The meeting will be attended by Vice Premier Haim Ramon, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann, Public Affairs Minister Avi Dichter and Minister without-portfolio Ami Ayalon.

The issue was raised in an effort to advance the negotiations for the release of kidnapped soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit. The forum will decide whether prisoners on the list given to Israel by Hamas who had previously been rejected can be considered for release.

Today’s definition of a terrorist “with blood on his hands” is one who may not have physically carried out an attack but was directly involved in one.

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