Truce comes after rupture in talks said to have been caused by IDF's resumption of airstrikes in area; battalion members to surrender arms to Ramallah following 6-week operation The post PA makes deal with Jenin Battalion,

Militant groups have grown in strength in Jenin, where Israel estimates almost half the population is affiliated to Islamic Jihad or Hamas. Since March 2022, Jenin and outlying areas in the north of the West Bank have drawn intensified raids ordered by Israel's government after a spate of Palestinian street attacks.

Among the prisoners listed by the Israeli Ministry of Justice are Ammar al-Zaben from Jenin and Abdel Nasser Issa from Nablus, both serving multiple life sentences, as well as Saleem Hijjah from Qalqilya, who is serving 16 life sentences.

Under the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel has agreed to release Palestinians held in Israeli jails in return for freeing hostages taken by the militant group Hamas in their Oct. 7, 2023 attack. There is no final agreement on which prisoners will be released in return for hostages,