Israel arrests 4 fugitive prisoners.. Has the security restrictions succeeded in keeping them away from the Palestinian popular incubator?

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- While Israel kept silent for 5 days and imposed a ban on publishing investigations into the escape of the six prisoners from Gilboa prison, it tightened its security and military grip on the Jenin area, adjacent to the June 4 border, Bisan towards the Jordanian border and Marj Ibn Amer to the outskirts of Nazareth.

During the searches, pursuits, and searches for the six prisoners, the mystery that surrounded the situation for four days led to the arrest of the two prisoners, Mahmoud Ardah and Yaqoub Qadri, at Jabal al-Qafzeh, near Nazareth, and then the arrest of the two prisoners, Zakaria al-Zubaidi and Muhammad Ardah, near the town of Shibli in the Marj Ibn Amer plain.

In an effort from Israel to frame the image of a fictitious victory and contain the repercussions of the setback in Gilboa and to reduce the achievement of the prisoners of the "Freedom Tunnel", the Israeli security establishment continues to search for the two prisoners, the Nafe'at fighter, and which of them is a slanderer, as the security services estimate that they separated from each other, and that at least one of them is in the West Bank. Western.

Victory tastes defeat

Israel broke its silence in a battle that was described by Israeli analysts as a "victory with a taste of defeat", while the Israeli media intimidate the pursuits, searches, security conditions and the promotion of intelligence information that led to the besieging and monitoring of the movements of the six prisoners in the Marj Ibn Amer Plain area.

In an attempt to sow the seeds of strife among the Palestinian people, Israeli military analysts claimed that the prisoners who liberated themselves did not receive external support and assistance or popular support and incubator from the Palestinians of the 48th.

Ron Ben Yishai, a military analyst for the Yediot Aharonot website, said that a report from an Arab family to the police contributed to the arrest of the two prisoners near Nazareth, while the two prisoners were found near Al-Shibli by means of an Israeli army reserve force, in reference to the Arabs serving in this unit.

The military analyst explained that the six prisoners did not receive help from outside, referring to the Arab citizens in Marj Ibn Amer, indicating that the tightening of the siege on Jenin, the unprecedented security spread in Arab towns within the Green Line, and the intense presence of security forces in uniform and civil patrols made the task difficult for the prisoners. By moving, moving and entering Arab towns or even to the West Bank.

Monitor the path of prisoners

These allegations came even though surveillance cameras confiscated by the Israeli police documented the entry of the six prisoners immediately upon liberating themselves on foot to the town of Naoura in Marj Ibn Amer, where they entered the village mosque to shower and change their clothes and were provided with water and food from a bakery. Help for families.

After monitoring the route of the initial movement of the six prisoners and their heading to the Nazareth and Lower Galilee area, despite their division into 3 groups, the Israeli security forces imposed a siege and strict measures on the villages of Marj Ibn Amer and set up police checkpoints at the entrances to Arab towns and main roads.

The strict measures and the Israeli security restrictions prevented the six prisoners from advancing and moving towards the West Bank or the Jordanian borders, or even entering the Arab towns, which constituted an obstacle to the possibility of them obtaining external assistance, while their access to the Palestinian popular incubator inside was an almost impossible task.

Department of Mobility for Prisoners

In order to tighten the siege on the movement of prisoners and prevent them from moving towards the Jordan Valley and the Jordanian borders or the ceasefire area in the occupied Syrian Golan, military analyst Ben Yishai explained that thousands of police, intelligence and Israeli army personnel participated in the search and search for the six prisoners in the plains, mountains and forested areas In Marj Ibn Amer, in order to narrow the circle of their movement and isolate their movements from residential areas.

Under penalty of a gag order issued by the Nazareth Magistrate's Court hours after the Gilboa prison operation, the Israeli security establishment transformed the Arab towns in Marj Ibn Amer and the Nazareth and Umm al-Fahm area into a military barracks.

In order to isolate the prisoners from the Palestinian popular incubator inside, and to make sure that they would not receive any Arab support and assistance, thousands of members of the security forces deployed in the towns of Naoura, Tamra, Al-Zu’biyeh, Iksal, Sulim, Al-Muqabila, Al-Shibli, Nazareth, Umm al-Fahm and Zilfa. .

Prison Service failures

In an indication of the beginning of the internal strife in Israel and the criticism and exchange of accusations against the background of the scandal despite the arrest of 4 prisoners, Itzik Spahn, the police affairs correspondent in the newspaper "Israel Today", wrote an analytical article entitled "The arrest of the fugitive prisoners is really impressive, but we must not forget the failure that led to it.

Spahn explained that whoever is looking for a picture of victory in Israel by throwing the cap on 4 prisoners will be difficult to achieve this, noting that Israeli society is facing difficulty in freeing itself from the idea of ​​slowdown, inaction and unimaginable failures of the guards, warders and officers in Gilboa prison who failed. miserably and resoundingly in the performance of their duties.

"We must be sure that the failures of the Prisons Authority and the escape of prisoners will not be repeated in the future," he added.

Members of the anti-terror unit participate in the search for prisoners in the Marj Ibn Amer plain (Israeli press)

fake victory picture

In turn, the liberated prisoner Amir Makhoul described the scenes of the arrest of the four prisoners as a "painful picture", adding that, however, "it is not a picture of an Israeli victory, but rather the failure of its security institution will remain in front of the free will," stressing that the dream of freedom is the people's permanent and promising dream.

Regarding the silence of the Israeli media and its deliberate adoption of misinformation and its promotion of narratives of incitement against the Palestinians of the 48 after the arrest of the four prisoners, Makhoul said on Facebook that “the Israeli media is war media and a tool of war, and its colonial narrative aims to undermine the morale of our people. It is worth questioning everything that is uttered.” with it".

Contrary to the captive novel, which is looking for a scene of victory and achievement for the security establishment, Makhoul says, "No image will be engraved in the Palestinian conscience or in the Israeli failure as it is the image of the opening of the tunnel of freedom."

Regarding the Israeli allegations that the six prisoners did not have a popular incubator and external support during their escape, Makhoul explained that the current Israeli endeavor is to destroy the morale of the Palestinian people, and to sow suspicion and schism among its components inside the Palestinian territories and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

He concluded by saying, "The forces and security system used by Israel in recent days are comparable to an integrated war and occupation machine in exchange for 6 liberators. The people's will and morale are the people's free and liberated space, and it is our responsibility to protect it."