The Israeli occupation forces escalated their raids and combing campaigns in villages east of Jenin in the northern West Bank, in search of the six Palestinian prisoners who escaped from Gilboa prison.

Some Palestinian villages witnessed confrontations with the occupation forces, which expanded their search operations on both sides of the Green Line in search of fleeing prisoners, and continued to close their military checkpoints and crossings in the area.

Also, at dawn today, Wednesday, the occupation forces arrested a number of relatives of the six Palestinian prisoners, as part of a combing and raiding campaign that these forces are continuing, and are concentrated in the villages of the Jenin area and the villages near the Green Line.


Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the campaign of arrests included the two brothers of the captive Mahmoud Al-Ardah and the brother of the captive Muhammad Al-Ardah in the village of Arraba, and the father of the prisoner, Munadil Nafi`at, from the village of Ya`bad, southwest of Jenin.

She pointed out that the occupation soldiers stormed the homes of the families of the three prisoners at dawn today and searched them and then arrested members of those families.

The soldiers also stormed the villages of Arbona, Al-Jamea and Faqqu'ah, east of Jenin, which are close to the separation wall, and only a few kilometers away from Gilboa Prison.

A military force also stormed the villages of Ya'bad, Al-Taybeh and Al-Arqa, west of Jenin, and searched their forests, claiming that they were border villages near the wall and on the seam line at the Green Line.

Palestinians posted on social media video clips documenting the mobilization of military vehicles by the occupation forces towards the town of Arraba in Jenin, to raid the homes of the families of the fugitives.

Tightening the prisoners

For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the prisoners are going to an open confrontation with the Israeli Prison Authority administration if it continues its punitive and abusive measures.

The Prisoner’s Club clarified that the Israeli Prison Authority administration continues to impose more punitive measures, after the escape of the six prisoners, represented by repression, transfer and search operations, especially in Gilboa Prison, closing all sections of prisoners in prisons, reducing the rest period, closing facilities such as the laundry, and depriving them of purchasing food.

The club explained that the Gilboa prison administration suppressed the Palestinian prisoners in section No. 3 of the prison and proceeded to transfer them to the nearby Shata prison.

He added that according to the information, one of the prisoners in the prison attacked one of the jailers by pouring hot water on him, in response to the Israeli forces' abuse of the prisoners.

The Prisoner's Club pointed out that it was confirmed that a group of prisoners had arrived at the Negev and Ofer prisons, coming from Section No. 2 in Gilboa Prison, a section that the administration has begun to transfer since the first day of the escape.

Prisons are witnessing a crackdown campaign launched by the occupation authorities against the prisoners against the backdrop of the escape from Gilboa prison, which took place at dawn on Monday.

The families of the prisoners asked the humanitarian institutions and the Red Cross to immediately go to Gilboa prison and follow up on the prisoners' conditions, in light of the administration's procedures that closed the prison and canceled visits.

The Great Escape

Tel Aviv announced on Monday morning that 6 Palestinian prisoners managed to escape at dawn through a tunnel they dug in Gilboa Prison, which is one of the most fortified prisons of the occupation and is nicknamed in Israel as "the iron safe", because of the tight procedures in it to prevent any escape attempt.

The six prisoners who managed to escape are Zakaria Al-Zubaidi, the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (affiliated with the Palestinian National Liberation Movement "Fatah") in the Jenin camp, and five prisoners from the Islamic Jihad movement from the Jenin area. Fouad Al-Kammji and Mahmoud Abdullah, casual.

Against the background of the escape, the Israeli Prisons Authority began distributing prisoners in the section where the six prisoners were, and also began transferring about 400 prisoners from Gilboa to other prisons, saying that “there are fears that there are other tunnels that could be used to escape more prisoners.” ".