Palestinian terrorists have a “right” to break out of Israeli prisons, says PA prime minister
“During his speech at the weekly meeting of the [PA] government that was held yesterday [Sept. 20, 2021] in Ramallah… [PA] Prime Minister [Muhammad Shtayyeh] said: ‘Our prisoners are the heart of the Palestinian national movement and six of them achieved their freedom anew from Gilboa Prison, and their re-arrest has reopened the prisoners’ issue (refers to terrorist prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison; see note below -Ed.).’
He added: ‘We are monitoring the issue with full seriousness and on a daily basis, and there is an authorized body that is monitoring all the details together with a team of expert lawyers,’ and he emphasized that ‘it is every prisoner’s right to strive for freedom.’”
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.