Former Palestinian detainees at mercy of Israel amid perpetual detention

Author: Fayha ShalashPublished on: November 8, 2026Country: Palestine

World / InternationalCrime & Law

Former Palestinian detainees at mercy of Israel amid perpetual detention

Ahmed Abed, a pseudonym for a 43-year-old Palestinian released to the occupied West Bank after 22 years in prison, says he still feels like a prisoner. Freed in January 2025 as part of a Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange, he has since been arrested six times and summoned for questioning five times by Israeli intelligence. Each time, soldiers raided his home and terrorised his family; his father was also once arrested. Hundreds of other former Palestinian detainees reportedly face frequent raids, arrests and interrogations, which prisoner-affairs organisations describe as a campaign of intimidation.

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