Israeli Arab association calls fugitive Palestinian terrorist prisoners “heroes” on PA TV

Official PA TV, special broadcast on Israeli Arab protest in front of Gilboa Prison after 6 terrorist prisoners escaped from the facility – see note below

Head of the Palestinian Prisoners ‎Association in the 1948 Territories (i.e., ‎Israel) Munir Mansour: “The prisoners, those who went far in the song of freedom, are more deserving than us of every activity, every [act of] solidarity, every mobilization, and every effort. As I said, they have sacrificed the best years of their lives for the sake of their people’s cause and for the sake of their people’s freedom. At the very least in the name of loyalty to these heroes, it is fitting that we stand here and shout the cry of the prisoners in front of the prisons.”

2021 Gilboa Prison escape – 6 Palestinian terrorist prisoners escaped from Israel's Gilboa Prison on Sept. 6, 2021, by widening the hole of the shower drainpipe in the floor of their cell. One terrorist is from Fatah - Zakariya Zubeidi, and the other five are from Islamic Jihad - Ayham Kamamji, Muhammad Ardah, Mahmoud Ardah, Yaqub Qaderi, and Munadil Nafiyat. Four of the terrorists were recaptured after five days: Zubeidi, Ardah, Ardah, and Qaderi. Kamamji and Nafiyat were arrested in Jenin on Sept. 18, 2021 along with two accomplices. Zubeidi was head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (Fatah's military wing) in the Jenin area during the PA terror campaign (the second Intifada, 2000-2005), when he oversaw numerous lethal attacks, and he also carried out shooting attacks in 2018-2019. Kamamji participated in the murder of 18-year-old Eliyahu Asheri on June 25, 2006, and planned to blow up a bus using an exploding car. Muhammad Ardah participated in initiating and executing a suicide bombing on bus no. 823 on Nov. 29, 2001, in which 3 people were murdered and many others were wounded. Mahmoud Ardah was involved in numerous attacks; the website of Islamic Jihad’s military wing defined him as the "commander" of the prison escape. Qaderi committed a shooting attack on Sept. 18, 2002 with an accomplice in which Israeli Yosef Ajami was murdered and a foreign worker was wounded. Nafiyat was being held in administrative detention.