"Israeli" forces re-arrest Palestinian detainee freed during ceasefire prisoner exchange

A Roya correspondent reported that Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested freed prisoner Wael Al-Jaghoub from his home in the west of Nablus in the West Bank.

Jaghoub was born on May 23, 1967, and lost his father at the age of four, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society.

The IOF first arrested Wael Naeem Ahmad Al-Jaghoub in 1992, where he spent six years in prison due to his involvement in resisting the occupation, before being released in 1998.

In 2001, a year after the outbreak of the Second Intifada, he was re-arrested and subjected to harsh interrogation methods by the IOF. He was later convicted of carrying out armed operations against military targets and settlers in Nablus governorate and was sentenced to life in prison.

He was freed earlier in 2025 during the Hamas-"Israeli" ceasefire prisoner exchange deal.

During his long years of imprisonment, Jaghoub suffered repeated solitary confinement—a policy used by the "Israeli" prison administration against influential prisoners to isolate them from their peers and suppress their role in raising awareness and strengthening resistance.

This isolation also led to him being denied family visits for years, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society.