A terrorist released to east Jerusalem last week as part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement fell to his death from the third floor of a building near his home, Palestinian media reported on Saturday.
Doctors at Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem pronounced Nael Obeid’s death.
The circumstances of his death were not clear.
Obeid spent 21 years in Israeli prison before returning to the Arab neighborhood of Issawiya in northeastern Jerusalem, where he grew up, Palestinian outlets reported.
He was a member of the terrorist cell that assisted a suicide bomber in the 2003 attack at Café Hillel in Jerusalem, in which seven Israelis were murdered and more than 50 others were wounded.
Obeid was serving seven life terms plus 30 years in prison before he was released as part of the hostage-prisoner exchange deal that was reached on Jan. 15 and approved by the Israeli government three days later.
On Oct. 7, 2023, thousands of Gazan terrorists invaded the northwestern Negev and massacred some 1,200 people, kidnapping 251 more into the enclave.
Since the start of the war, 147 hostages and 45 bodies were returned to Israel.
Hamas still holds 63 hostages, 36 of whom have been confirmed to be dead.
