Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian who had been released just a few months earlier as part of the recent prisoner exchange deal under the Gaza ceasefire agreement during a military raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
Fahed Sawalhi was freed a few months earlier after serving 23 years in Israeli prisons.
Local sources said Israeli forces arrested the former detainee during a military raid in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus at dawn on Monday.
During the raid, the sources added that the soldiers raided several homes of Palestinians who were recently released as part of the prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.
The first phase of a prisoner exchange deal under the ceasefire agreement resulted in the release of 1,777 Palestinian prisoners, who spent a total time amounting to approximately 10,000 years in Israeli detention centres.
In recent months, Israeli forces have re-arrested at least 15 Palestinians previously freed under the January agreement.
Under the terms of the deal, which Israel later violated when it resumed assault on Gaza, the released Palestinians were not to be re-arrested on the same charges for which they had previously been imprisoned. Rights advocates say Israel's actions breach terms of the deal and send a warning to other released prisoners.
US President Donald Trump announced the creation of a “Gaza Peace Council” and called for the resistance to disarm as Phase Two of the US-backed Gaza plan began, a move that comes amid ongoing Israeli violations on the ground and growing doubts over the plan’s viability.
Pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that the ADL was working with the FBI and actively monitoring people online. He listed out what online activity they were monitoring, as well as what he referred to as the "extremists" they were monitoring, including pro-Palestine and anti-genocide activists.
On October 10, the Israeli forces completed the first phase of withdrawal under the ceasefire deal to the “Yellow Line,” a non-physical demarcation line separating the Israeli occupation forces from certain areas of Gaza, while occupying roughly 53 percent of the Strip.