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bars, Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yassir Arafat said Monday in his
address to the Palestinian representa-
tives in Gaza.
It was with that first prisoner
release that the hunger strike began,
spreading from prison to prison.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority
subsequently argued over the precise
terms of the Wye accord.
_Netanyahu repeatedly maintained
that Israel made no commitment to
release prisoners "with blood on their
hands" a point seconded by some
American officials.
Palestinian officials saw things dif-
ferently, demanding the release of
some 600 prisoners who had been
jailed before the Oslo accords were
signed in 1993.
Issa Karaka, chairman of the
Palestinian Prisoners Club, insisted
this week that only 250 prisoners
actually had Israeli blood on their
hands.
"Tell me," Arafat asked activists
from his Fatah movement last week
during a highly emotional gathering
in Hebron, "does it make sense that I
would have gone to Washington for
lengthy negotiations just to release a
few thieves?"
Along with the hunger strikes, the
issue triggered a week of violent con-
frontations in the West Bank between
Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli
security forces. Four Palestinians died
in the confrontations including
the cousin of Palestinian negotiator
Saeb Erekat — and dozens more were
wounded.
The confrontations, which lasted
more than a week before the
Palestinian Authority clamped down
on them in anticipation of Clinton's
arrival in the region Saturday, were
soon dubbed the "prisoners' Intifada"
a reference to the 1987-1993
Palestinian uprising in the territories.
The campaign was so well-orga-
nized — with the hunger strikes in the
prisons, youths taking to the streets
and family members staging sit-ins —
that Israel accused the Palestinian
Authority of orchestrating it.
Indeed, it was on the basis of this
accusation that Netanyahu recently
announced he would suspend further
implementation of the Wye accord
until the Palestinian Authority
clamped down on incitement.
At least some of the organization
for the campaign came from within
the prisons themselves.
Palestinian security prisoners are
grouped in the prisons according to
their political affiliations, with a para-
military hierarchy The commanders
not only are responsible for prison life,
but they often extend their authority
to life beyond the barbed wire.
According to a recent Israeli seci!ri-
ty report, many of the recent Haman
terrorist attacks were planned and
guided by senior Hamas prisoners.
The prisoners' Intifada was of