Palestinian protest calls for release of jailed prisoners in Israel

Palestinians hold portraits of jailed relatives during a protest at the Red Cross offices in Gaza City to demand the release of some 11,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails on March 23, 2009. The Islamist Hamas movement had demanded Israel free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in return for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, but Israel's outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has blamed Hamas for the failure of Egyptian-mediated talks aimed at securing a prisoner exchange. (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)