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Israel Rearrests Former Palestinian Detainee Ahmed Abed After Release From Jail
“Despite being technically ‘free’, Abed, 43, is still often rearrested by Israeli forces”
“Israeli forces shot and wounded a Palestinian child and detained two men during raids”
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Ahmed Abed, freed nearly two years ago, rearrested or summoned for interrogation by Israeli forces. West Bank raids across Jenin, Nablus, and Hebron detain multiple Palestinians, including six in Jenin area.
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Former detainees face rearrest
Ahmed Abed, a pseudonym, said he still feels like a prisoner despite being released from an Israeli jail to the occupied West Bank nearly two years ago, and he described being rearrested or summoned by Israeli intelligence for interrogation.
Abed said Israeli forces warned him they would rearrest him if he made the “slightest mistake,” and he said, “Whenever there are reports of Israeli military activity in the city, my family goes into a state of high alert; no one sleeps all night.”
Abed said Israeli soldiers forced him to walk for several kilometres handcuffed and blindfolded, and he said he was then placed in a detention centre where he faced beatings and verbal abuse before threats began.
Abed said an Israeli officer told him, “We have zero patience for you. Any behaviour we deem inappropriate, or any movement we find suspicious, we will rearrest you immediately,” and he said he has been arrested six times and summoned for interrogation five times since his January 2025 release.
The Al Jazeera report said the prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel in January 2025 followed Abed’s 22 years of a life sentence, and it said organisations dedicated to prisoners’ affairs document arrests of dozens of Palestinians across the West Bank as large-scale operations target former detainees.
Raids across West Bank
Israeli occupying forces arrested six Palestinians, including two brothers, after raids on their homes in Nablus and Jenin governorates in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, according to the Al-Jazeera Net report. The Prisoners' Club said Israeli forces arrested Hassan and Muhammad Hurzallah after raiding their family’s home in Khirbet al-Turm, southwest of Jenin, and it said the forces also arrested Naif Jalaal Simmar and Muhammad Mahmoud Mashhour Simmar after raiding relatives’ homes in al-Yamun, west of Jenin. In Nablus, Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian youths after raiding homes in the village of Kafr Qalil, east of the city, and the report said a Palestinian child was shot by the Israeli army during raids on scattered areas of the occupied West Bank.
The report said hundreds of settlers, under Israeli army protection, raided the old city of Hebron and forced shop owners to close at gunpoint, and it said settlers attacked a Palestinian house on Shuhada Street and smashed its windows. The Anadolu Ajansı report said Israeli forces shot and wounded a Palestinian child and detained two men during raids across the occupied West Bank late Saturday, and it said Palestine TV reported the child was shot in the foot during a raid near the Kafr Saba neighbourhood in Qalqilya.
Prior notifications halted
The report from القدس العربي said the Israeli army halted informing Palestinian security services in advance about arrests, raids, and searches of homes in search of weapons in villages and towns in the occupied West Bank. The report said the Hebrew newspaper Makor Rishon attributed the decision to instructions issued by the army’s Central Command chief, Major General Aviv Bloch, under the pretext of “Israeli concerns about leaking information to militants.” The report said the measure covered operations carried out by Israeli forces inside areas under Palestinian Authority control in the West Bank, and it said the move did not mean the complete end of Palestinian-Israeli security coordination.
The report said the Hebrew newspaper quoted the army as saying that “the prior notification procedures have actually regressed over time,” and it said the commander of the army’s Central Command reaffirmed instructions designating cases in which Palestinian authorities should not be informed of troop movements. The report said the West Bank was divided into Areas A, B, and C under the Oslo II Accord signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel in 1995, and it said Area C, which accounts for about 60 percent of the West Bank, remains under Israeli civilian and security control.