Digging a tunnel, six Palestinians members of armed groups managed to escape from an Israeli jail in the highest security today. Police have launched a huge operation to locate them.
A first alarm sounded before dawn and specifically at around 03:00 today (Greek time and time), when residents said they saw “suspects” moving near the Gilboa high security prison in northern Israel.
Pictures released from prison show that the detainees dug a tunnel on the floor of a bathroom through which they managed to escape.
Penitentiary authorities say they are transferring some 400 detainees in Gilboa convicted of “security-related crimes” to other prisons to prevent further escapes from other tunnel that they may have dug.
The escape came as Israel prepares to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Police have launched a manhunt to locate the six fugitives. For its part, the army has made available to the police the aerial surveillance means at its disposal and has announced that it has prepared for the possibility of an intervention in the West Bank.
According to Israeli media, the fugitives may have already reached the Palestinian territory, which they occupied in 1967. Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described the incident as “very serious” and said he was monitoring the search for the fugitives in real time, as reported by Agence France-Presse and the Athens News Agency.
The Israeli authorities have not revealed the identities of the escaped detainees, but the West Bank-based Palestinian detainees’ organization has identified them.
Among them are Zakaria al-Zubaydi, head until 2007 of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Mahmoud Abdullah Ardah, who was sentenced in 1996 to life in prison.
In 2007, Zubaydi agreed to surrender his weapons in exchange for an agreement with Israel to remove his name from the list of wanted Palestinians. However, the Israeli authorities later withdrew, with the internal security service Sin Bet announcing that it was involved in “various attacks”. Zubeidi was arrested and convicted in 2009.
Satisfaction
The Islamist movement Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and the Islamic Jihad welcomed the escape.
“It is a heroic and courageous act, a victory of the will and determination of our heroic prisoners, a real blow to the Zionist security system, which the occupiers present as the best in the world,” said Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman.
The Gilboa High Security Prison was opened in 2004 amid a series of attacks linked to the second Palestinian Intifada (2000-2005).
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