The occupation police raised the state of alert throughout Israel against the backdrop of the escape of 6 Palestinian prisoners, amid reports of a security breach in Gilboa Prison, while the Palestinian factions warned the Israeli occupation authorities against the continuation of the fierce attack on the prisoners.

"We are preparing for a rapid transition from a state of routine to an emergency, and operational assistance to the Prison Service Department in cases when the disturbances get out of control," the Israel Broadcasting Corporation said today, Thursday, quoting the police.

This measure apparently comes due to the growing fears that the fleeing prisoners, or some of them, may be planning to carry out an armed operation or hold Israeli hostages in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners. In occupied Jerusalem, in preparation for Friday prayers.

The Israeli police have asked Israeli citizens to be vigilant and to report any suspicious persons.

security breach

Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said today that the watchtower above the hole of the tunnel dug by the six prisoners in Gilboa Prison had no guards at all.

The newspaper added that it was not clear why the guard did not guard the tower, "whether it was a tactical security arrangement by the Prison Service, a lack of budget or a reason for something else, and that the police were investigating."

She added that this is "another omission in the long list of omissions by the Prisons Authority in the case of the escape of the six prisoners from Gilboa prison."


Tension in prisons

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said today, Thursday, that the prisoners burned rooms in section “7” in Raymond prison, in refusal to continue the occupation’s prison administration in the repression and abuse against them.

A state of extreme tension prevails in a number of Israeli prisons, against the backdrop of punitive measures imposed by the Prison Authority.

A letter signed by representatives of prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons, received by the Palestinian Prisoners Club, stated that the occupation prisons administration had begun to wage an all-out war on the prisoners and decided to punish them after it failed to prevent the escape of the six prisoners.

The message added that the prisoners will take steps to escalate in the coming days, which will be announced later, and the prisoners appealed to the Palestinian factions to continue the popular movement and marches in support of them.

For its part, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced that it had been informed of the Israeli Prison Service canceling visits to the families of Palestinian detainees during the period between 12 and 14 September, due to the escalation inside the prisons.


Solidarity events

In the context of the wide Palestinian solidarity campaign with the prisoners, the factions warned that they would not stand idly by in the face of violations against the prisoners in the occupation prisons.

And the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called for tomorrow, Friday, to be considered a "day of anger" in the face of Israel, in order to reject its violations of the rights of Palestinian detainees in its prisons.

The movement said in a statement that "in light of the frenzied attack against our brave prisoners carried out by the occupation, we call on the masses of our people to make Friday a day of Palestinian anger in the face of the arrogance of the occupation and its aggression against the prisoners."

For his part, the official of the Popular Front in the Gaza Strip, Jamil Mezher, stressed that the escalation will be met with an escalation, calling on the Palestinian people to provide protection for the six prisoners and to continue the operations of confusion and confusion of the Israeli occupation.

Dozens of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip also participated today, Thursday, in a stand in solidarity with Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.

The participants in the stand - organized by the feminist framework in the Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza City - raised banners calling on the international community and human rights organizations to defend the prisoners in Israeli prisons.


Appeal to the United Nations

In the same context, Palestinian institutions today launched an urgent appeal to the United Nations and the international missions operating in Palestine to provide protection for prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Today, Thursday, Al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad, organized a military parade in the Gaza Strip in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

For the third day in a row, Israel has imposed punitive measures against the prisoners, including storming prisons, abusing detainees, beating detainees and transferring them to other prisons, after 6 prisoners succeeded in escaping from the heavily fortified Gilboa prison.