Released Palestinians prisoners celebrate after crossing the Beituniya checkpoint before leaving for the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. Israel on Monday freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians, including a militant mastermind from the 1970s who became the Jewish state’s longest serving Palestinian prisoner, in a goodwill gesture made just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to begin her latest peace mission to the region. (AP Photo/ Nathalie Bardou)