The Israeli army arrests the last prisoners who escaped from Gilboa prison
At dawn on Sunday, the Israeli army announced the arrest of the last two Palestinian prisoners who had escaped with four other Palestinian detainees about two weeks ago from Gilboa Prison in northern Israel.
At the dawn of the sixth of September, six Palestinian detainees managed to escape from Gilboa Prison, which is considered one of the most fortified Israeli prisons, through a tunnel dug under a sink.
However, the Israeli security services re-arrested four of them near the city of Nazareth inside Israel.
In a brief statement to the media on Sunday, the army said that it had arrested, during a joint operation with special units, in Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, the last two prisoners to escape, Ayham Kammaji (35 years old) and Munadel Nafeat (26 years old), both of whom are members of Islamic Jihad.
The army indicated that the two men are "currently being interrogated," without giving further details about the special operation that led to their arrest.
Kammaji comes from the town of Kafr Dan, near Jenin, and was arrested in 2006 and sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping and murder of Israeli settler Eliyahu Asheri.
As for Nafi'at, he was arrested in 2020, according to the Islamic Jihad Movement, and he was waiting for his sentence to be pronounced.
And he was imprisoned several times in the past, because of his activity in this movement.
Israel enlisted all its security services to hunt down the six fugitives.
The Israeli police initially arrested two of them, Yaqoub Qadri, who has been imprisoned for 14 years, and Mahmoud Al-Ardah, the oldest of the six detainees, who spent 26 years in prison, and both are sentenced to life imprisonment.
The next day, the police arrested Zakaria al-Zubaidi, a former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, in Jenin camp, who is still not convicted, in addition to Muhammad al-Ardah, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment and has served 22 years.
The escape operation sparked a wave of criticism in Israel, which prompted the Israeli government to take a decision to form an investigation committee and re-examine all Israeli prisons that hold about 4,650 Palestinian detainees, including 200 children and minors.
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