PNA urges Israel to drop controversial prisoners law

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The Palestinian National Authority(PNA) on Saturday called on Israel to cancel a controversial law it uses to hold prisoners without a trial or keep them jailed after their terms were over.

Israel has ratified the "illegal warrior law" in 2002 and applied it to Palestinians arrested in the Gaza Strip during its three-week military operation in the Hamas-controlled territory that ended on January 18, 2009.

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