Occupied Jerusalem -
Today, Monday, the 1:30 am marked a watershed stage in the history of the Palestinian captive movement in the battle it is waging with the prison authorities of the Israeli occupation, when 6 prisoners succeeded in wresting their freedom and escaping from the depths of the earth from Jabloa prison (Shatta) near Bisan. .
The following is the timeline of what happened:
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At 01:49 in the morning,
a taxi driver informed the Israeli police that he saw (3 suspicious persons) near the prison, and a police patrol toured the area and interrogated a gas station worker near the prison who reported that he saw a black person wandering around At the scene, the police were suspicious of a strange event in the area.
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at 02:15 am
, Nissan 's
police chief held consultations and meeting to assess the
situation.
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at 03:30 am
, the
Israeli prison authority has
asked the police to
track the
effects of
three prisoners.
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four o'clock in the
morning
, it
turned out to talk about the
six prisoners escaped from the
"Gilboa" prison, without the
discovery of a
way to
escape.
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five o'clock in the
morning and half
, mobilized the
Israeli Prison Service special forces "unit Masada", and units of the
police together with border guards in the
Israeli army, to begin search operations in
cooperation with the
Public Security "Shabak" device.
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at 05:45
, informed security officers in nearby towns ordered the
escape of
prisoners, Venspt barriers in the
streets, and declared full alert on the
borders of the
West Bank, and announced that the
security services and the
army of the
Israeli state of
emergency preparedness in the
West Bank and
in the
Gaza Strip and at military crossings in the
border areas.
Scandal and series of failures
In the face of the acceleration of events and the circulating of accounts of what happened, the Israeli Prison Service was quick to reveal the initial information about how the escape took place and the failure to discover or thwart it.
At nine o'clock this morning, Monday, the Israeli Prison Authority acknowledged and acknowledged the first failures when 6 prisoners from Jenin were placed in a common room, contrary to the established procedures, according to the newspaper "Yediot Aharonot", which confirmed that it was forbidden to put the prisoners together in a cell one.
Initial information about the scenes of the escape process and the details that were allowed to be revealed showed that the six prisoners managed to escape through the sewer line next to their cell, and that they escaped through a hole discovered under the toilet, and exited from it towards the southern area of Gilboa prison, which is the area leading to the plains and bushes. .
Captive rating: very high probability of escape
The Israeli police are investigating whether some of the jailers in Gilboa Prison (Shatta) were connected and aware of the escape of 6 prisoners from the prison at dawn today, Monday.
The police are examining the possibility that some of the jailers were involved in the operation, while a team from the national unit to interrogate the jailers of the Lahav 433 unit is participating in the investigation, according to the official Israeli radio station Kan.
The six prisoners who managed to escape are: Zakaria Zubeidi, the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin camp, and 5 prisoners of Islamic Jihad from the Jenin area: Munadel Yaqoub Infaat, Muhammad Qasim Ardah, Yaqoub Mahmoud Qadri, Ayham Fouad Kammaji, and Mahmoud Abdullah Ardah.
The Israeli Prison Service classified the six prisoners as "at a high level of risk", and 3 of them described the possibility of escaping from prison as very high: Ayham Fouad Kammaji, Mahmoud Abdullah Ardah, and Yaqoub Mahmoud Qadri. Their escape is great."
400 prisoners transported
In a preventive measure and to reduce the repercussions of the failures, the Prison Authority issued an order to prepare for the distribution of prisoners in the section where the six prisoners were, and is also working to transfer about 400 prisoners from Gilboa to other prisons, saying that “there are fears that there are other tunnels that can be used in More prisoners escape.
Amid the criticism of the failures, the Israeli Prison Authority admitted that the six prisoners are of a "high level of danger", and stated that the possibility of 3 of them escaping from prison is high, while the security establishment did not conceal its fears that the six prisoners, including people who carried out operations, would try to carry out operations. Operations and fleeing from Israel, perhaps across the border with Jordan, the Gaza Strip or Syria.
Unprecedented failure
An official in the Israeli Prisons Service described the escape from Gilboa prison as an unprecedented failure of the security and intelligence services, telling the Haaretz newspaper that "this is how it happens when inexperienced people are appointed to such sensitive positions."
The official in the Prisons Authority revealed to the newspaper information from the investigation file that preliminary estimates show that the six prisoners planned the escape a long time ago, and obtained help from outside the prison.
According to the official, cell phones of the prisoners were smuggled, and through them they contacted a group with whom they planned to escape from the prison, and revealed that the entrance to the prison's sewage well is near the prison's watchtower.
The prisoners were able to get out of the sewage well and escape with one or more cars that were waiting for them near the place, while not long ago the six prisoners got help from the jailers in Gilboa Prison, according to the Walla website.
Not the first
The escape of the six prisoners drew attention to a series of escape attempts, the most famous of which was what happened in the same prison in 1998, when 24 prisoners from several factions, including the leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Abdel Hakim Hanini, tried to escape from Shata prison by digging a tunnel inside the prison room. last moments.
In the same section of Gilboa prison, prisoners of Islamic Jihad repeated in June 2014 an attempt to escape from the prison through a tunnel, but the prison authorities discovered the 4-meter tunnel they had dug in the bathroom of one of the cells.