Initial investigations into the circumstances of the escape of the six Palestinian prisoners from Gilboa prison indicated that the surveillance cameras installed on the watchtowers monitored them the moment they exited the tunnel opening, but none of the jailers in the control room did not notice this and did not declare a state of emergency in the prison.
Investigations also indicated that one of the female guards who took over the guard in the tower overlooking the tunnel opening fell into a nap at that hour and did not notice the escape process.
The Prison Authority has so far evacuated 90 Palestinian prisoners from Gilboa Prison, which will undergo a massive inspection in the coming days in search of other tunnels that may have been dug under the prisoners' cells.
The six prisoners who managed to escape are: the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin camp, Zakaria Zubeidi, and 5 prisoners of Islamic Jihad from the Jenin area, and they are: Munadal 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, as notes were placed in their files and identification cards in prison that “” There is a high chance of them escaping.
In the same context, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the occupation authorities transferred 90 Palestinian prisoners from Gilboa prison out of 360 prisoners, who are the total prisoners in the aforementioned prison.
He added that the occupation had transferred only section "2" prisoners to other Israeli prisons.
Searching for escaped prisoners
The Israeli police said that it deployed about 200 checkpoints throughout Israel as part of efforts to track down 6 Palestinian prisoners who managed to escape from Gilboa Prison (west of Bisan).
Police forces check the identities of drivers on the roads, and search suspicious cars.
The Israeli police also set up a joint operations room with the Israeli army and the so-called anti-terror unit "Al-Yamam" to focus search efforts.
And the Israeli intelligence is participating with all its technological capabilities, in an effort to reach the tip of the line that leads to the location of the prisoners' escape.
The police have issued a judicial order imposing a complete blackout on the details of the investigation, for a period of one month.
Earlier, the Israeli Prison Authority acknowledged the first failures when 6 prisoners from Jenin were placed in a common room, contrary to the established procedures, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which confirmed that it was forbidden to put the prisoners together in one cell.
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, the area leading to the plains and bushes.