Lawyer Raslan Mahajna said that his client, the captive Mahmoud Al-Ardah, admitted that he was responsible for planning and executing the Freedom Tunnel operation, which he began digging in December of last year.
During his interrogation, Al-Ardah denied that the prisoners who escaped through the tunnel had received help from other prisoners.
Also, he denied that anyone from Nazareth had reported the prisoners.
He explained that his arrest with the prisoner Yaqoub Qadri was a coincidence, as a police patrol passed by, and when it saw them, it stopped.
Al-Ardah said that the six prisoners remained next to each other until they reached the village of Naoura and entered the mosque, and from there they dispersed.
He added that they tried to enter the West Bank, but there were large Israeli reinforcements.
He also said that the prisoners tried not to enter the Palestinian towns inside the Green Line so as not to expose anyone to accountability. He added that he was in high spirits, and described what happened as a great achievement.
The lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners Affairs Authority (Mahajna) was able to visit Ardah after midnight.
torture journey
Mahajna said, at dawn on Wednesday, that the model had gone through a very severe torture journey, as he was severely beaten and hit in the head.
The lawyer added that the model has not received treatment until now, although he suffers from wounds all over his body.
Mahajna noted that this prisoner had only slept a few hours, since his re-arrest.
He confirmed that Al-Ardah rejected all charges against him, and he remained silent during his interrogation, despite all attempts of pressure and torture.
The Prisoners' Affairs Authority had announced earlier that its lawyer would visit two of the four prisoners who were re-arrested by Israel, out of 6 who succeeded in escaping from prison.
On September 6, the six prisoners escaped from the high-security Gilboa prison in northern Israel, through a tunnel dug from their cell to the outside of the prison.
4 of them were re-arrested last Friday and Saturday, while the Israeli security forces are searching for the activist Yaqoub Nafi'at, and Ayham Fouad Kammaji.
Since the re-arrest of the four prisoners, the occupation authorities have prevented lawyers from visiting them, which has constituted a source of concern for the Palestinians about the health status of these prisoners, amid expectations that they will be subjected to a severe investigation by the Israeli intelligence.