Palestinians create mural celebrating the 6 terrorist “heroes” who escaped Israeli prison
Headline: “[Town of] Arraba commemorated ‘the freedom tunnel’ with a mural decorating one of its squares”
“Arraba – the history and the culture, Arraba – from whose womb two of the heroes of the freedom tunnel operation came (refers to 6 terrorist prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison; see note below -Ed.); it is Arraba of art and rootedness, and it is the one whose young people documented and commemorated the freedom tunnel with a creative act, far from the occupation’s violence, wars, and prison cells. A number of people of initiative from among the people of Arraba found an opportunity in the freedom tunnel operation to emphasize many human values and also many lessons that were demonstrated by the operation’s heroes in their dangerous search for freedom and their mighty victory over all the security mechanisms in the occupation’s prisons and in the occupation state.”
The article includes a picture of the mural, in which a hand is seen holding a spoon indicating the spoon used by the terrorists to dig a tunnel out of Gilboa Prison; the hand is making a “V” for “victory” with its fingers.
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.