The police said that six Palestinians escaped from a heavily guarded Israeli prison on Monday, and Israeli media reported that they were members of a militant group.
According to the report, five of the prisoners belonged to the Islamic Jihad movement, and one was a former commander of an armed group affiliated with the mainstream Fatah party.
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According to reports, the six persons were inmates and were dug up from Gilbo Prison in northern Israel.
National Police spokesperson Eli Levy told Kan Radio: “Overnight, we received some reports of suspicious people in the farmland and prison department. They quickly discovered that the prisoners were missing from their cells and 6 people had escaped.”
He said that security forces are looking for these people and believe they may try to reach the nearby West Bank, the Israeli-occupied area where the Palestinian Authority exercises limited autonomy, or the Jordanian border.
Israeli media reported that one of the prisoners was Zakaria Zubedi, the former commander of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in the West Bank city of Jenin.
These brigades carried out deadly attacks on Israelis during the Palestinian uprising from 2000 to 2005.
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