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Pursuing the freed prisoners of the exchange deal - arrest, summons and raiding homes
March 7, 2025

The occupation authorities continue to pursue those released in the exchange deal in the city of Jerusalem.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center - Jerusalem said that the occupation authorities arrested today the young man Rami Salah al-Din, who was released in the exchange deal (the third batch) at the end of last January.

The center indicated that the forces, during the past two days, raided the homes of prisoners released in the deal - who preferred not to mention their names - and informed their families verbally and without reason that their sons "should not leave the house" and stormed to check their presence in it.

The forces also continue to summon those released in the deal, and during the investigation they threaten them, and inform them that they are prohibited from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque "without handing them decisions", while many of them were handed decisions prohibiting their entry to Al-Aqsa.

The forces also recently raided the home of one of the released prisoners deported outside the Palestinian territories, and handed his family a summons for him and his son.

During the last month, the forces raided the homes of those released in the last exchange deal, and imposed various violations on them under the pretext of “the presence of paper in front of the homes, and writing on the walls opposite the home,” in addition to the municipality crews raiding their homes and taking their measurements, inspecting the family’s vehicles and canceling the licenses of a number of them, inspecting the water meter of the prisoners’ homes, and searching and vandalizing some of the contents of the home.

These measures were described as retaliatory against the freed prisoners and their families.

At the end of last month, the occupation authorities filed an indictment against the released prisoner Ashraf Zghayyar, from the town of Kufor Aqab, and two members of his family, on the pretext of "traffic violations they committed during the celebration of his release on January 25th."

The charges against them are: "being a passenger in a vehicle with part of his body outside it, not wearing a seat belt, and careless behavior on the road."

Meanwhile, in mid-February, Israeli Minister of Interior Moshe Arbel decided to deport the released prisoner Zeina Barbar, who was released in the first batch of the exchange deal.

In the exchange deal/first stage, 76 Jerusalemite prisoners holding the "blue ID" were released, including 27 prisoners who were deported outside the Palestinian territories, 2 to the Gaza Strip, 8 women, and 46 prisoners with life sentences and high sentences.