Jordan's police said they would soon release four prisoners who killed Israelis and transferred from Israeli prisons to continue their terms back home, local daily Jordan Times reported Friday.
The men will be freed on Aug. 20, after Jordan notified Israel of its decision to have them freed in accordance with Jordanian laws, said Public Security Department Spokesperson Major Mohammad Khatib.
Of the four, three infiltrated into Israel in November 1990 and killed an Israeli soldier, and the fourth killed another Israeli troop in the same year.
The four had been serving life terms in Israeli prisons since 1991, three years before Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty ending six decades of enmity and war.
They were sent back home last year to serve the remaining term in Jordan's prisons after an agreement was reached between Jordan and Israel.
Jordan's government has pledged to follow up on the files of all Jordanian prisoners in Israel and everywhere else.
In the past few months, Jordanians jailed in Syria were freed following a summit of Jordan's King Abdullah II and Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The government also proposed to Iraq to swap prisoners so that Jordanians could spend the rest of their terms in home countries.
(Xinhua News Agency August 15, 2008)
