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STORY: The remains of 91 Palestinian militants whose attacks killed hundreds of Israelis were returned to the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday in a gesture Israel said it hoped could help revive peace efforts.
But there was no indication Palestinian leaders were ready to relax their demand that Israel stop all settlement-building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem before they would resume the suspended talks, or that Israel would relent.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip waited at Israel's fortified Erez crossing for the handover of 11 bodies, some of them only partial remains.
The militants had been buried, some for decades, in a desolate Israeli military cemetery for "enemy combatants" in the occupied West Bank.
The dead include more than 20 suicide bombers who killed over 200 people in attacks in Israeli cities from 1995 to 2006, and who to many Israelis are no more than ruthless murderers.
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