I’d be more surprised if he didn’t take up arms.

Via Times of Israel:

A former Palestinian prisoner who made headlines earlier this year after a lengthy hunger strike led Israel to release him has taken up arms again. Ayman Sharawna, who was released on condition he not exit the Gaza Strip for the next 10 years, was filmed sporting an automatic weapon and joining Hamas fighters as they took up positions along the border with Israel.

Sharawneh, 36, was released from Israeli prison in March, bringing to an end a seven-month hunger strike that made him a symbol of resistance for the Palestinians. The terms of his release demanded that he be confined to Gaza for 10 years and not engage in terrorist activities.

In the clip, shown on Channel 2 News Tuesday (Hebrew), Sharawneh can be seen donning combat fatigues and lacing up his boots before taking up a rifle and joining a patrol of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along the Strip’s border with Israel.

“Our message to the occupiers is clear,” Sharawneh says to the camera. “We are here to protect our land.”

Sharawneh is shown joining a briefing with several heavily armed Hamas fighters and then posing as he aims a rifle from behind the cover of a tree.