JERUSALEM, October 7 (Xinhua) -- Israel announced Thursday that it would not release 151 Palestinian prisoners Friday as scheduled in the latest Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, saying new dispute has arisen in the negotiations over the terms of the release.

　 "We were planning to release (prisoners) tomorrow ... there will not be a release of Palestinian prisoners," Israeli Internal Security Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami said on Israeli television.

　 Ben-Ami said the Palestinians had raised objections to the list of prisoners Israel is prepared to release and Israel would try to understand the Palestinian position.

　 According to the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement signed one month ago, Israel is obligated to release 150 Palestinian prisoners Friday in the second batch of a total of 350 prisoners to be freed. Israel released the first group of 199 prisoners on September 9.

　 The latest dispute centered on Israel's inclusion of some prisoners whose sentence terms would be finished in a few months. The Palestinians demand that those to be release should have at least five years of sentence term left.

　 Ben-Ami said, however, that Israel has the right to decide the list alone under the agreement, although it would consult with the Palestinian side.

　 The dispute emerged in spite that the Israeli security cabinet agreed Wednesday to relax the criteria for the release, approving the inclusion of 12 prisoners who are members of the Islamic militant groups Hamas and Jihad but did not kill Israelis.

　 Israel has said earlier that it would not set free those who had killed Israelis or belong to Hamas and Jihad.

　 The dispute over the prisoner release came two days after Israel and the Palestinians clinched a deal on the opening of a safe passage route linking Gaza and the West Bank. The deal was signed after the two sides overcoming their difference which has prevented the route from being opened Sunday as scheduled in the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement. (Xinhua)