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Official PA daily uses non-recognition terminology: "1948 territories"

Headline: “Death of the released prisoner Sami Younes”
“The [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, the Prisoners’ Club, the national movement of prisoners in the occupation’s prisons, and the released prisoners expressed sorrow over the death of released prisoner Sami Younes from the village of Arara in the Triangle (a concentration of Israeli-Arab towns and villages in northern Israel -Ed.) within the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel).”

Sami Younes - an Israeli Arab who was serving a 40-year sentence for planning the kidnapping and killing of Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg on Dec. 1, 1980. He instructed his relatives, Karim and Maher Younes, to carry out the kidnapping and commit the murder. He was originally sentenced to life in prison, but his sentence was shortened. In October 2011, Younes was released as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal brokered between the Israeli government and Hamas. In that deal, Israel released 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for more than 5 years.

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