Israel could re-arrest prisoners freed during week-long truce: reports

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Israel has not rearrested any of the more than 200 Palestinians who were released as part of its temporary truce deal with Israel, but that could soon change with the ongoing raids in the occupied West Bank, according to Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim.

“Palestinians say it could be a matter of minutes, that [Israeli forces] would arrest those prisoners,” she said, noting that the number of Palestinian arrests mounts every day.

In the first four days of a weeklong truce between Israel and Hamas, Israel released 150 Palestinian prisoners. Over the same four days, Israel arrested at least 133 Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank, according to Palestinian prisoner associations.

“There is barely a day where a Palestinian city or town is not raided which adds to the tensions,” Ibrahim said.

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