Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces managed this morning, Saturday, to arrest two other escaped Palestinian prisoners, bringing the number of those arrested during the past hours to 4 of the six prisoners who escaped days before from Gilboa prison.
The reporter added that the Israeli security forces arrested the two prisoners, Zakaria al-Zubaidi and Muhammad Ardah, in a parking garage between the villages of Arab al-Shibli and Umm al-Ghanam at the foot of Jabal al-Tur (south of the city of Nazareth).
Israeli media said that intelligence information had reached the police indicating the whereabouts of the two prisoners hiding before their arrest.
The Hebrew "Wala" website said that the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Zakaria Al-Zubaidi, tried to resist his arrest and escape, but he was very exhausted and was immediately brought under control.
The website indicated that the two were transferred to the investigation cellars of the Shin Bet security service.
Last night, the occupation forces arrested Mahmoud Al-Ardah and Yaqoub Qadri near Jabal Al-Qafeh (south of Nazareth) after extensive search operations.
Two prisoners remained at large among the six - all residents of Jenin Governorate (in the northern West Bank) - who managed to escape through a tunnel from the high-security Gilboa prison.
One of the escaped prisoners is Zakaria al-Zubaidi, a member of the Revolutionary Council of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), and the rest of the five belong to the Islamic Jihad movement, and they are: Mujahid Yaqoub Nafi’at, Muhammad Qasim al-Ardah, Yaqoub Mahmoud Qadri, Ayham Fouad Kammaji, and Mahmoud Abdullah al-Ardah.
The Israeli forces have been carrying out a large-scale pursuit operation since the escape of the six prisoners, and the Israeli army announced last Wednesday evening the deployment of new military reinforcements in the occupied West Bank.
Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that an Israeli helicopter was conducting search and combing operations in the Marj Ibn Amer area (south of Nazareth), and criminal investigation personnel began to raise evidence they found in an agricultural field, at a time when the Israeli police deployed checkpoints in the area witnessing intense security reinforcements. .
Solidarity rallies
He called on activists in Jenin to organize marches after the noon prayer, starting from the town of Arraba and heading to the house of the prisoner Muhammad Ardah, before heading to the house of the prisoner Zakaria Al-Zubaidi.
The calls came hours after the occupation authorities announced the arrest of Al-Zubaidi and Arda, and activists in Arraba called for a national strike day.
Demonstrations took place in several areas of the occupied West Bank following the announcement of the arrest of the two prisoners yesterday.
In the Jenin governorate, Palestinian youths organized a march in the town of Arraba, which reached the house of the captive Mahmoud Al-Ardah, to express their solidarity with the family, before heading for another march to the village of Bir Al-Basha, the birthplace of the captive Qadri.
As for the city of Ramallah (central West Bank), dozens of young men gathered in the center of the city and set out for a march that roamed its streets, chanting slogans expressing their solidarity with the prisoners.
In the southern West Bank, young men marched in Aida camp in Bethlehem, chanting angry slogans expressing their solidarity with the prisoners.
On Friday, Palestinian camps and gatherings in Lebanon witnessed a series of popular movements and demonstrations, as part of what it called "Friday of Grabbing Freedom", in support of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
These moves came in response to the call of the Palestinian factions in Lebanon to consider Friday, the tenth of September, a day of massive popular anger, in support and joy for the liberation of the six prisoners from the Israeli Gilboa prison.
Ain al-Hilweh camp in Sidon (south) witnessed a massive solidarity sit-in, in support of the Palestinian prisoners in the face of the Israeli campaign of repression targeting them inside their prisons, and "in defense of the prisoners of freedom, the heroes of the Liberation Tunnel."
In the city of Tire (south), the Rashidieh, Al-Bass and Al-Burj Al-Shemali refugee camps witnessed popular sit-ins and sit-ins, in support of the Palestinian prisoners and to demand the protection of the prisoners who were able to free themselves from the prisons of the occupation.
A missile from Gaza and an attack in the West Bank
Hours after the arrests of Zakaria al-Zubaidi and Mahmoud al-Ardah, activists in the Gaza Strip fired a missile at Israel that was intercepted by the Iron Dome system, the Israeli military said. Sirens sounded, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
Al-Jazeera correspondent in the Gaza Strip said that at dawn today, Saturday, Israeli warplanes bombed sites of the Palestinian factions in the north, center and south of the Strip.
Last night, the Israeli army announced the interception of a rocket-propelled grenade fired from the Gaza Strip at the Eshkol settlement complex, adjacent to the Gaza Strip's borders.
The Israeli army has also mobilized its forces in all areas adjacent to the border with the Gaza Strip, in anticipation of more shooting and rocket attacks.
Islamic Jihad spokesman Daoud Shehab held Israel "responsible for the lives of the two released prisoners who were arrested."
On Friday evening, Palestinian gunmen opened fire at an Israeli checkpoint in the north of the occupied West Bank, following the announcement of the re-arrest of the two fugitives, Mahmoud Al-Ardah and Yaqoub Qadri.
Media sources said that Palestinian gunmen opened fire and threw homemade bombs at Al-Jalama checkpoint in Jenin governorate (northern West Bank), before they withdrew.
take responsibility
Both the Palestinian Prisoners' Club and the Fatah movement held Israel responsible for any harm caused to the two Palestinian prisoners who were re-arrested.
"We hold the occupation responsible for any harm that may occur against the two prisoners who were re-arrested," Qaddoura Fares, head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, told Anadolu Agency.
Fares called on the International Red Cross - in particular - to visit them and reassure them that they are not subject to an investigation that includes physical torture, and stressed that the two prisoners "will be subject to a harsh investigation, because Israel has hundreds of questions and wants quick answers to them."
The Fatah movement held the Israeli government responsible for the lives of the two prisoners, and warned of the repercussions of harming them.
In a statement, it called on the international community and human rights organizations to intervene to provide protection for the prisoners inside the occupation prisons, and to stop the occupation attack being carried out on them.