Freed after 34 months, Imad Najjar is rearrested five days later

Imad Mustafa Najjar had been free for five days. Before dawn on Monday, Nov. 9, Israeli forces arrested him again in Anabta, a town east of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank. He had just been released after serving 34 months in Israeli prisons, WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, reported, citing local sources. The Prisoners' Media Office also reported his rearrest.

He was one of six people detained that morning in Anabta and the nearby town of Kafr al-Labad, according to WAFA. The Prisoners' Media Office, a Palestinian outlet that covers detainees, counted 14 arrests across the West Bank overnight. Among them was another former prisoner, Kamal Adel Barri, from Immatin near Qalqilya.

The office described the rearrest of freed prisoners within days of their release as an ongoing practice. In a separate case, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society reported on Nov. 4 that a journalist, Hazem Nasser, had been rearrested two weeks after he was freed.

None of the sources says where Najjar is being held, what he is accused of, or whether he faces administrative detention, which allows detention without charge on renewable orders. The sources carry no comment from the Israeli army.