With the Hamas-Israel ceasefire continuing to hold, another tranche of Palestinian detainees have been released in exchange for Israeli captives.
Arguably the most high-profile figure to be included this time is Zakaria Zubeidi.
Zubeidi was the head of the Jenin branch of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an armed group founded by Fatah during the Second Intifada in 2000.
Long a symbolic figure of the occupied West Bank’s resistance against Israel, Zubeidi was jailed in 2019, breaking out in a five-day prison escape in 2021 before being recaptured.
Over the years he became iconic for his work not just as a resistance fighter but through his involvement in Jenin’s Freedom Theatre, a world-famous cultural centre in the city’s refugee camp…..more
