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Egypt released 33 members of Hamas who had been detained after Palestinian militants breached the border in January, security sources said on Sunday. The men were held for possession of arms in Egypt, but subsequent investigations cleared them of "involvement in any terrorism in Egypt", the security sources said.
The men were driven to the Rafah crossing where they then travelled into the Hamas-held Gaza Strip, the sources added. The release followed talks on Saturday between Egypt and representative of Hamas and Islamic Jihad as part of a push for a truce between the militant groups and Israel. The Palestinians called for the release of Hamas members held by Egypt.
A Hamas spokesman said on Saturday Egypt had promised to release the Gazan detainees. However, as of Sunday one Hamas detainee, described by sources in the Islamist group as the most senior among those detained, was still being held by Egypt.
Earlier this week, senior Hamas official Saeed Seyam said in an interview posted on the Internet the detainees were tortured in Egyptian jails, and interrogators wanted to know the location of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Shalit, then 19, was captured by Palestinian gunmen in a cross-border raid into an Israeli army base in June 2006.

Copyright Reuters, 2008

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