On September 10, local time, the Israeli occupying forces arrested two of the six prisoners who had escaped from Gilboa Prison a few days ago. At the same time, several sessions of solidarity were held in the Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Lebanon. They demonstrated while armed men opened fire at a checkpoint in the West Bank.
The Israeli media released photos of the arrest of two prisoners, Mahmoud Alida and Yakub Qadri from the Islamic Jihad.
Al Jazeera reporters reported that two prisoners were arrested near Kafez Mountain, south of Nazareth, because the occupation authorities conducted an extensive search of the area at noon on the 10th.
Mass hunt
In the early hours of Monday morning, six detainees managed to escape from the heavily guarded Gilboa Prison through a tunnel, all of whom were residents of Jenin Province in the northern West Bank.
One of the fugitives was named Zakaria Zubedi, who was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of the Palestine National Liberation Movement (Fatah), and the other five were from the Islamic Jihad. They are: Munadr Nafiat, Mohamed Qasim, Yakub Qadri, Fuad Kammaji, Mahmoud Alida.
Since the above-mentioned six prisoners escaped, the Israeli army has been carrying out large-scale hunting operations. The Israeli army announced on the evening of the 8th that it will deploy new military reinforcements in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera reporters reported that an Israeli helicopter was conducting a search and combing operation in the Marji Ibn Amer area south of Nazareth, and criminal investigators also began to submit evidence they found in a farmland. At the same time, the Israeli police deployed multiple checkpoints in the area and implemented intensive security reinforcements.
Missiles from Gaza and attacks on the West Bank
The Israeli military stated that a few hours after the arrest of the two fugitives, militants in the Gaza Strip fired a missile in the direction of Israel, but it was intercepted by the “Iron Dome” defense system. The alarm sounded, but there were no reports of damage or injury.
Dawad Shehab, spokesman for the Islamic Jihad, believes that Israel “is responsible for the lives of the two prisoners arrested.”
On the other hand, after Israel announced the arrest of two escaped prisoners, Palestinian militants opened fire on an Israeli checkpoint in the northern part of the occupied West Bank on the night of the 10th.
According to media sources, Palestinian militants opened fire at the Jalama checkpoint in Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank of the occupied West Bank and threw homemade bombs at it before evacuating.
Solidarity parade
After the announcement of the arrest of two prisoners, demonstrations broke out in various areas of the occupied West Bank. In Jenin Province, Palestinian youth organized a parade in the town of Alaba. The parade went to the address of the prisoner Alida. The demonstrators expressed their solidarity with their family members. After that, another parade went to the hometown of prisoner Kadri. .
In the city of Ramallah in the middle of the West Bank, hundreds of Palestinians gathered in the city center and marched in the streets, chanting slogans of solidarity with the prisoners.
In the southern West Bank, many Palestinians organized demonstrations in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, chanting angry slogans to show their solidarity with the prisoners.
Palestine refugee camps and communities in Lebanon also organized a series of popular movements and demonstrations on the 10th, which they named “Friday for Freedom” to support the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
These measures are in response to the appeals of various Palestinian factions in Lebanon. People call the Friday of September 10 “Popular Fury Day” to support the six prisoners who escaped from Israel’s Gilboa prison.
In the Ein Khalwa refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, people organized a large-scale sit-in demonstration to support the Palestinian prisoners in resisting the Israeli repressive campaign against them in the prison, and to “defend free prisoners and escape tunnel heroes.” “.
People’s sit-ins and demonstrations have been organized in the refugee camps of Rashidia, Bath, and North Burj in the southern city of Sol to support Palestinian prisoners and demand protection for those prisoners who successfully escaped from the prisons of the occupation authorities.
The solidarity of all factions
In the same context, the Palestinian faction in the Hrub region of southern Lebanon also organized a sit-in demonstration to support those who escaped and the prisoners who are still struggling in Israeli prisons.
In the Burj Barajina refugee camp in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, hundreds of refugees participated in a demonstration in solidarity with the prisoners. In a speech delivered during the sit-in, Lebanon’s Islamic Jihad leader Abu Visam Munavir praised “the prisoners who fight for freedom with their own hands”. He also pointed out that some prisoners are still in prison. Suffering the most severe torture, they must receive solidarity and support.
In the same context, Palestinian refugee camps in northern Lebanon also organized similar activities, especially in the two refugee camps in Nahar Barad and Badawi. Participants of the movement held up the Palestinian flag and photographs of prisoners, and chanted slogans, demanding that the Israeli occupation authorities take full responsibility for their lives.
In the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, in response to the appeal of Palestinian forces and parties, a solid stand demonstration was held at the headquarters of the Arab Nasser Movement to protest the Israeli occupation authorities’ abuse of prisoners.
Take responsibility
Both the Palestinian Prisoners Club and the Fatah Movement demand that Israel be held accountable for any harm suffered by the two Palestinian prisoners who have been arrested again. The head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Kadura Faris, emphasized to reporters of the Anadolu News Agency that “we demand that the Israeli occupation authorities take full responsibility for any harm that the two prisoners may be arrested again.”
Faris specifically called on the International Red Cross to visit the two and ensure that they would not be subject to investigations including physical torture. He also emphasized that these two prisoners “will be subject to severe investigations because Israel has hundreds of problems. And want a quick answer.”
On the other hand, the Fatah movement requires the Israeli government to be responsible for the lives of the two prisoners and warns of the consequences of harming them. Fatah also called on the international community and human rights organizations to intervene in a statement and provide protection for prisoners in the prisons of the occupation authorities and stop the occupation authorities’ infringements on them.
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