Yesterday, the world woke up to the news that 6 Palestinian prisoners escaped from Gilboa prison in northern Israel through a tunnel they dug, according to the statements of the occupation prisons authority, a news that sparked a mixture of pride and happiness on the communication platforms.

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The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts pictures of what it said was a tunnel dug by 6 Palestinian prisoners at the bottom of Gilboa Prison in the Bisan area, and they escaped through it pic.twitter.com/JVwluchYjC

- Al Jazeera Mubasher (@ajmubasher) September 6, 2021

Drama lovers likened what happened to epic dramas in the Arab world, as well as Hollywood films whose events revolved around the escape of prisoners, declaring their superiority over the eyes of the guards and the might of the warders.

Here is a list of some of the most famous and successful works of art that revolved around the idea of ​​escaping from prison.

– Prison Break – The Palestinian Version!#Freedom Tunnel# Gilboa Prison pic.twitter.com/Q8wwzGcIc1

— MariaMe Fneiche (@mariame_fneiche) September 6, 2021

They did it 💪❤️🔥


The mession impossible ✌️ #Freedom_Tunnel #Gilboa_Prison pic.twitter.com/ZqrVfcDtQ2

— Rawan🇵🇸 (@rawanisam44) September 6, 2021

The Soul series.


Accounts circulated on social media, clips of a scene from the series “The Soul,” which was produced in the Gaza Strip in 2014, and one of its scenes simulates the process of digging prisoners inside an occupation cell, a tunnel and crossing through it to free themselves from prison.

Tweeters quoted Shahar Glick from the Israeli army radio as saying, "Note this... a scene from the TV series Al-Rouh, which was broadcast in 2014 on the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV channel, 6 prisoners escape from the Israeli prison, through a tunnel that begins in the cell room and ends in the fields. It seems that Someone has been inspired."

The best ever

With seven Oscar nominations and an audience rating of 9.8 points, in addition to being on the top of the list of the 250 best films in the history of world cinema - according to what was published on the technical website IMDb - "The Shawshank Redemption" remained one of the The most inspiring artwork to the public and acclaimed by critics.

The work was released in 1994 and starred Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. Written and directed by Frank Darabont, who was based on the writing of a short novel, "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King.

The events of the series revolve around Andy, a banker who is wrongfully accused of killing his wife and her lover, which leads to him being sentenced to life imprisonment.

There, the warden decides to take advantage of the new prisoner's accounting capabilities and the cost of controlling his tax statements and some illegal activities related to money laundering.

Unless the sheriff calculates that one of the prisoners - after many years - reveals information that points to the real criminal in the wife's murder case, which makes Andy's release around the corner.

But the sheriff prevents this for fear of revealing his secret on the one hand, and on the other hand losing the services that the hero gives him, and here Andy decides to plan to escape no matter how much time and patience it takes, his only weapon is a small hammer that leads him to freedom through a dark tunnel in the hope that it will end in light.

A scenario similar to the famous movie “The Shawshank”,


but this time it is real and not acting, starring 6 Palestinians

the shawshank redemption 🇵🇸🇵🇸# Tunnel_Freedom pic.twitter.com/CkfDSwOs2c

— alaobaid (@alaobaida) September 6, 2021

The biggest escape in prison history

The history of "Electraz" began in 1859 as a military prison that bore the nickname "The Rock", being a high-rise building located on an island off the coast of San Francisco, making it isolated and escaping from it like an impossible task, before joining the US Prison Service in 1934, where the most notorious and most dangerous criminals were being held. to ensure that they do not escape.

This huge myth was shattered by Frank Morris - one of the smartest criminals ever - in the early sixties, as he managed to escape with two others, relying on some raincoats, soap, toilet paper, hair stolen from the barber, as well as an air conditioning engine, in order to carry out their strange and infernal plan, which was to To escape through the ventilation hole to the surface and then use the bed covers to descend into the sea.

It is reported that to this day, the three fugitives have not been found, and because of that incident, Electraz was closed in mid-1963, after which it turned into a tourist attraction that attracts millions of visitors from all over the world annually. The same story inspired director Don Siegel to turn it into a film entitled “Escape from Electraz.” (Escape from Alcatraz) starring Clint Eastwood.

The most ingenious plan

As for the drama, we cannot neglect the American series “Prison Break”, which released 4 seasons between 2005 and 2009, while the fifth season was released in 2017. The work received a high viewership and high audience ratings, despite the differing opinions about the end of its fourth season, though That did not affect the viewership of its fifth season.

The story of the series revolved around a man who was unjustly sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. His brother only devised a very ingenious plan to help his brother escape, before committing one of the crimes to enter prison and start implementing his plan.

Although the two brothers actually manage to escape, the issue does not end there, as the escape only complicates their lives, especially since some real violent criminals manage to escape with them, so that the police start chasing everyone, which coincides with the hero falling in love with the prison doctor, and events follow. .

Modern escape

Finally, with a women's drama and the Spanish series "Prisoner" (Vis a Vis), or as it was known in English (Locked Up), the work was shown over 4 seasons that ended in 2019.

It is a group tournament that takes place in a women's prison, where a naive young woman named "Macarena" joins the prisoners, who falls victim to a love affair with her manager at work, which entails accusing her of theft after proving that she tampered with accounts, before being sentenced to 7 years in prison.

There, she finds herself in the midst of a world she knows nothing about, full of cruelty and crime. With time, she begins to awaken her naivety to the hateful reality. And when she tries to adapt to the lonely world around her and begins compromising in order to obtain innocence or even a reduced sentence, she finds herself forced to participate in an escape operation led by the most brutal prisoner, or she will pay the price of knowledge, death.