Palestinian media reports that this morning, Israel arrested Murad al-Ajlouni, a Palestinian prisoner freed in a hostage-release and ceasefire deal earlier this year, in Kafr Aqab in East Jerusalem.
Al-Ajlouni was initially arrested in 2002 and sentenced to three life sentences plus 20 years for assisting the terrorist who carried out a 2002 attack at the Seafood Market restaurant in Tel Aviv, in which three people were killed. He was affiliated with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an armed faction linked to Fatah.
In July, four Palestinians who had been freed in the hostage deal were also rearrested, among them Samah al-Shobaki, a member of the Islamic Jihad terror group who had been serving a life sentence until he was freed in the deal.
Israeli authorities have not yet commented on the reports.
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