The Russian Foreign Ministry praised Israel for releasing Palestinian convicts, but expressed concerns about its plans to build 1500 settlements in Ramat-Shlomo in East Jerusalem and the West Bank of the Jordan, the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, RIA Novosti reports.
Russia urged Israel and Palestine to abstain from provocations that could impede the negotiating process.Israel released the second group of Palestinian convicts (26 people) on October 30. They are part of the people detained before the signing of the agreements in Oslo in 1993.
