While Israeli authorities were taken aback by the 'tunnel escape' of Palestinian prisoners, this time, Palestinian inmates who were imprisoned in prisons set fire to a mass revolt.



According to local media such as the Times of Israel on the 8th (local time), Palestinian security inmates set fire to the fire at Kechiot and Ramon prisons in the Negev in southern Israel on the same day.



In Quecchiot Prison, members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group set fire to seven cells, and at Ramon Prison, two cells in other wards were also burned.



Violence also erupted at Oper Prison near Jerusalem, and Palestinian prisoners tried to spray hot water on prison guards at the northern Gilbao Prison, where a recent mass escape took place.



Palestinian security officers imprisoned in an Israeli prison are said to have taken collective action in response to the authorities' massive transfer attempt after a mass escape on the 6th.



In response, correctional authorities temporarily suspended transfers and issued the highest level of alert for prisons across the country.



Earlier on the 6th, six Palestinian prisoners, including the former commander of the 'Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade', a military organization of the Fatah Party leading the Palestinian Autonomous Government (PA), disappeared from the northern Gilboa prison on the 6th.


After they disappeared, authorities found a narrow tunnel running from the floor of the cell's bathroom to the outside of the prison's walls.



Rusty spoons were found on the bathroom floor, which authorities believe escaped burrows with spoons over several months.



As a result of the investigation, the prison guard was asleep while they escaped, and it was known that the prison blueprint was published on the Internet for anyone who participated in the construction of the prison to be seen.



Israel has mobilized the military, police, and intelligence agencies such as Sinbet to pursue a large-scale chasing operation for three days as far as Jenin on the West Bank of the Jordan River, but they have yet to find their whereabouts.



However, authorities are said to have arrested many of the escapees' families and relatives.



Meanwhile, Hamas, the militant group that governs the Palestinian Gaza Strip, has warned that Israeli authorities will take countermeasures if the transfer of a group of Palestinian prisoners is enforced.



The People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also said in a statement that it would retaliate with force if it harms Palestinian prisoners.



Palestinians have also staged protests in support of Israeli prison inmates on the west bank of the Jordan River. 



(Photo = Yonhap News, EPA)