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The Israeli comedian, Tal Friedman, chose to mock the Israeli authorities' handling of the escape of the six Palestinian prisoners from Gilboa prison, through a video in which he pleads with Zakaria Zubeidi, one of the escaped prisoners, and invites him to return and participate in the celebrations of the Jewish New Year.

And Friedman points out in his satirical clip that the escape of the six prisoners disturbed the Israelis and their government to celebrate New Year's Eve.

In simulating what is happening in the vicinity of Gilboa Prison, the Bisan area and the nearby Jordan Valley, where Israeli estimates indicate that it may be the sanctuary for the six prisoners at the beginning of the escape process, Friedman, accompanied by an Israeli actress of Ethiopian origin, filmed clips in which he says: “We are hiking here in the Gilboa area looking for a friend.” Good.. let's call him together.. Zakaria Zakaria.. come back here.. here is a restaurant and a place where everything is as you like.. Zakaria Zakaria. "

The comedian and his escort continued to mock and criticize the searches carried out by the Israeli police in search of Zakaria al-Zubaidi and 5 prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment and supporters of the Islamic Jihad movement.

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Comedy and satirical

The satirical clips reflect the state of frustration and disappointment among the Israelis, as well as in the security establishment of the occupation, which mobilized thousands of its forces in search of the six prisoners who escaped from prison with the start of the Jewish holidays.

With the police concealing the facts and developments of the investigation from the Israeli public, and the failure to reveal the whereabouts of the six prisoners, Friedman pleads in the last scene, saying, “Zakaria, come back and share the holiday dinner with us,” and indicates that thousands of security forces did not join their families in the celebrations.

 failures

The beginning of the Hebrew year with an unprecedented security event in the history of the Israeli Prison Service reflects the depth of the crisis experienced by the Israeli security establishment in dealing with the Palestinian issue, and the confusion of its successive governments - especially the current one headed by Naftali Bennett - in resolving the conflict on the Gaza front, according to Israeli experts and analysts.

Despite the attempt to create a festive atmosphere for the Hebrew year, the issue of the escape of the six prisoners refused to leave social media sites, after the Israeli security forces failed to find them.

As the series of failures that enabled and helped the prisoners to escape from the "most fortified" prison unfolds, it is likely that after the end of the Jewish holiday - tomorrow night, Wednesday - criticism of the police and the prison authority will escalate, and voices calling for the overthrow of the Bennett government will rise.


fall and inaction

In a torrent of criticism on social networking sites, the Israeli orientalist Eddie Cohen wrote - a tweet on Twitter - "It is a fall for Israel, 6 'terrorists' escaped from their prison through a tunnel dug like films." eyes and help them escape?"

Emphasizing that the escape from Gilboa disturbed the Israelis and robbed them of the joy of the holidays, the military correspondent for the Hebrew website Walla, Amir Buhbot, chose to document his presence in the Gilboa prison area, with the Israeli institution launching a campaign to search for the six prisoners. He wrote a tweet that was accompanied by a video saying: Eid is gone.

The scriptwriter of the Israeli comedy program “Wonderful Country” wrote a tweet in which he announced, in a sarcastic manner, the launch of a campaign for the Israeli Prison Service entitled “Come back” on a picture of Zakaria Al-Zubaidi.

Palestinian gunmen roam the northern West Bank city of Jenin, where the Israelis accuse their government of failing (Reuters)

erosion of deterrence

In an attempt to highlight the historical failures of the Prison Service, Michael Milstein, a researcher in Israeli policies toward the Palestinians and Arab countries, mentioned the history of Shata prison (formerly Gilboa prison) in the prisoner escape.

Milstein says, "In July 1958, a revolution broke out among the prisoners, during which more than 100 of them broke through the prison walls. Two guards and 11 captives were killed in the accident. Dozens of prisoners managed to reach Jenin and were received in a festive procession. Many of them were re-arrested after the army occupied The Israeli West Bank in 1967.

In inciting to liquidate the six prisoners on the ground if they are found, the Israeli journalist Yoni Ben-Menachem says that "the real and great fear of the Palestinians is not the capture of the six terrorists who fled Gilboa, but their physical liquidation by the Israeli army and the General Security Service."

"This is an important point to consider for those who want to restore deterrence," he added in a tweet.

In Ben-Menachem's view, the Israeli "deterrence force" needs urgent rehabilitation, and he says that "the flight from Gilboa is another stage of the erosion of Israeli deterrence with regard to dealing with terrorism in the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank."

He believes that what he called "the Israeli policy of containment of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza" has failed.

Therefore, the Israeli army must immediately change the methods of dealing with what it described as "terrorism" to innovative and new methods that achieve results.

The military analyst in the newspaper "Maariv", Tal Lev Ram, went to demand the implementation of a military operation in the West Bank in search of them "if they did not flee to Jordan at all."