The Israeli army has announced the arrest of the last two prisoners of the six Palestinians who fled in a spectacular escape two weeks ago from a prison in the north of the country. A few days after the escape, the Israeli military had arrested the first four escapes. The two arrested today were traced to Jènine, the northern sector of the occupied West Bank from which the escapees originated.
Palestinian media reported clashes erupted in Jenin when Israeli troops entered the city, but an Israeli police spokesperson said the two fugitives, Munadil Nafayat and Iham Kamamji, were arrested without resistance in a house where they had taken refuge. and transferred for questioning. Fouad Kamamji, Iham’s father, told The Associated Press that his son called him when Israeli troops surrounded the building and told him he would give up “so as not to endanger the owners of the house.”
Israel, a hole under the bathroom: the escape from a film of six Palestinian prisoners
by Sharon Nizza
On 6 September, the six Palestinian detainees in prison for anti-Israeli violence fled from a maximum security institution in Gilboa through a tunnel dug under a sink. To track down the escapees, who have become “heroes” for the Palestinians, Israel has deployed military reinforcements and drones to try to find them. The weekend following this escape, Israeli forces arrested four prisoners in the Nazareth area. Among them Mahmoud Ardah, a member of the Islamic Jihad in prison since 1996 and considered the mastermind of the operation, and Zakaria al-Zoubeidi, former head of the armed wing of the Fatah party for the Palestinian camp of Jenin, bulwark of the armed rebellion, who were also questioned. Today the military announced the arrest in Jenin of the last two, Ayham Kamamji, 35, and Munadel Infeiat, 26, both members of Islamic Jihad.
The two men “are currently being interrogated”, the military underlined in a brief statement, without providing more details on this special operation for the time being.
Originally from Kafr Dan, near Jenin, Kamamji was arrested in 2006 and sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping and murder of Eliahou Asheri, a young Israeli settler. Infeiat was arrested in 2020 and was awaiting sentencing after being jailed on several occasions in the past for his activities within Islamic Jihad.
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