JERUSALEM
Israeli authorities on Monday rearrested Samer Issawi, who was released in December following a record nine-month hunger strike.
"Samer was arrested from home [in East Jerusalem] by a joint Israeli force without a reason," his father Tarek Issawi told Anadolu Agency.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society, an NGO, said in a statement that Israeli authorities have decided to keep Issawi in detention for 24 hours pending investigation.
There was no comment from Israeli authorities.
Issawi was released in December as part of a deal, under which he ended his nine-month hunger strike in protest at his detention.
Issawi ended his strike on April 23 after accepting a deal thrashed out by Israeli and Palestinian officials under which he served eight months in prison on charges of violating bail conditions for an earlier release.
He had been released in 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian Authority and Israel after spending ten years in prison.
Issawi was later arrested in 2012 on claims of entering Al-Ram town northeast of Al-Quds in violation of the deal.
According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Society, some 5270 Palestinians – including 191 in administrative detention – continue to languish in jails throughout the self-proclaimed Jewish state.
By Abdel-Raouf Arnaout
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