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Between the fall of 1955 and 2021, about 7 decades of revolutionary time pass, and between historical Palestine and Algeria distances are far by geography standards, but the heroes of freedom in every national generation make the same legendary epics, because they draw from one niche for the values ​​of dignity and valiant resistance to the occupation, whatever its title, The sayings of "indomitable power" did not seep into their dogmatic creed.

Therefore, 6 Palestinian prisoners managed to wrest their freedom and escape from the cells of the Israeli Gilboa Prison;

His historical resonance among the elite symbols on social networking sites in Algeria, evoking a similar heroism for the comrades of the martyr Mustafa Ben Boulaid;

One of the most prominent architects of the Algerian liberation revolution (1954-1962).

The Algerians read the blatant failure of the Zionist occupation to secure a prison described as the newest building and the most fortified in Israel within the “history repeats itself” rule, as France, in turn, bet on the immunity of the Kudiya prison in Constantine to isolate the leaders of the revolution, without her realizing that it is impossible before the will of freedom, Tweeters also commented on their posts.

What is the story of the escape of “Mustafa bin Boulaid and his brothers 11”?

Boulaid.. the lion of Aures

Mustapha Ben Boulaïd (1917-1956) is classified among the most important figures of the national movement since the 1940s, and later at the head of the bombers of the Algerian revolution, as he rose in all the responsibilities of the political and military struggle, until he was called the father of the revolution and the Lion of Auras (the cradle of the revolution and its strongest region).

He had a strategic role in planning, organizing and mobilizing, as a political and military leader in the face of colonialism, as well as his wealthy family donating all of their money to the liberation revolution, to take care of bringing the first shipments of arms from Libya, and storing them in the mountains during the era of the secret private organization (1947-1950).

As soon as armed action officially broke out on November 1, 1954, the French occupation made the arrest of mastermind Mustafa Ben Boulaïd its first goal, no matter the cost.

Within 100 days, the French forces managed to arrest him on February 11, 1955, after days of vigorous walking amid difficult natural terrain and dangerous security conditions, believing - and the compass was lost - that he was in the direction of the Libyan-Tunisian border.

On March 3, 1955, the occupation submitted Mustafa Ben Boulaïd to a French military court in Tunis, which on May 28 issued a sentence of life imprisonment with hard labor.

Then he was transferred to Constantine to be re-tried in Algeria before a military court on June 21 of the same year, and the decision to execute him is issued, and he is transferred to the fortified Kadiya prison.

But the leader of the people does not surrender to the fate of the jailer. Mustafa Ben Boulaïd fought a bitter struggle until he forced the prison administration to treat the prisoners of the revolution like political prisoners and prisoners of war, according to international laws.

After 14 days of the hunger strike, the chains and chains were removed from the prisoners inside their cells, in exchange for allowing them to go out to the prison yard, and this was an important gain within a more comprehensive plan brewed in the minds of the revolutionaries, which is to flee once and for all from the grip of their tormentors.

Latch and soap bars

The witness, Mujahid Muhammad Bazian, said that the leader, Mustafa bin Boulaid, asked them to "make suggestions about contributing to the revolution from behind bars first, then put forward the idea of ​​escaping, so that the plan came from Hajjaj Bashir, one of the ex-prisoners in Al-Kidiyah."

The concerned person replied that "the only way is to dig a tunnel in the cell that leads to the next room, which is a storeroom that is only opened from time to time, and its wooden door leads to a courtyard that ends with a wall that also overlooks a wall overlooking a pedestrian corridor," according to the documentation of the news agency. Algerian 10 years ago.

The plan was implemented unanimously by means of a latch extracted from the window of the cell, and pieces of wet soap that were kneaded with dirt, to hide the traces of the iron piece with which the group took turns digging the concrete floor, and then deceiving those tools with a broom from the allies, because all the contents of the cell - except for her - are searched And change periodically.

The revolutionaries’ work was daily between 11 am and 2 pm, with a pause every quarter of an hour to avoid the time of the guards’ inspection, and then between 5:30 and 6:30 pm, as this period witnessed the exchange of the night shift.

The excavation process experienced several difficulties, including the sound itself, and then the resulting dust and stones, as confirmed by historian Muhammad Abbas in his book "Great Revolutionaries".

After 28 days of adventure under the bars, specifically on November 14, 1955, the leader, Mustafa bin Boulaid, managed to escape, along with 11 mujahideen, they are: Muhammad al-Ayfa, al-Taher al-Zubayri, Lakhdar Mishri, Ali Haftawi, Ibrahim Taibi and Rashid Ahmed Boushamal, Hamadi Karoma, Muhammad Bazian, Suleiman Zaidi, and Hussein Arif.

echo history

With the renewal of the story of the Palestinian escape from Israeli captivity, Algerian figures, among the ranks of great writers, writers and media professionals, interacted with great pride, starring the prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi and his brothers.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi tweeted, "The escape of 6 Palestinian prisoners from one of the most fortified, guarded and advanced Israeli prisons, through a tunnel they dug for months, reminds me of the escape of the hero leader Mustafa bin Boulaid from the prison of El Kedia with 11 prisoners of the French colonialism ... Even if they arrest them again, they will be And they are defenseless, they have defeated the myth of Israeli supremacy.

While the political activist Samira Douaifiya wrote that “the free people are one sect following in the footsteps of the symbolic martyr Si Mustapha bin Boulaid, when he dug the gate of his emancipation from the terrible Kadiya prison, and he was liberated with ten of the brothers of the struggle through a tunnel from the cell to the rehab of Free Algeria. With their free will, the gateway to their liberation from the prisons of the abhorrent occupation."

Journalist Othman Lahyani wrote, "Freedom is precious and deserves to be dug tunnels with nails, to turn the tyranny of the oppressor into a cynical moment... What the six freedmen did completes a similar epic carried out by the martyr Mustafa bin Boulaid and his companions who broke the chains and left the Al-Kidiya prison behind, through a tunnel and wall. , 60 years ago.

Lahyani added, "The revolutionary mind is able to create the tools of struggle from scratch, to employ any simple means, to create a moment of vital victory over the occupier."

As for Mohamed Bouazzara - one of the historical columns in the Algerian press - he wrote, "The story of the escape of Palestinian resistance prisoners today from the prison of the occupied Zionist entity is similar to a story that yesterday's leaders and fighters of the November 1 revolution managed to escape from one of the largest prisons of the French occupation."

And he added, "There is a fact based on the science of history, which rarely errs, and on the revolutionary logic in the struggle of peoples, which is that the occupation, whatever its form, will end in demise."

Zouhair Bouamama, professor of international relations at the University of Algiers, commented, "Six vicious Palestinian prisoners are again conquering the myth of the Israeli security system. Our mujahideen fathers did it in our victorious revolution in the same way... One day all Palestinians will be liberated outside the great prison of the occupation."