Escape of Palestinian terrorist murderers from prison is an “unprecedented act of heroism” to be "proud" of say PLO officials
Headline: “Al-Ahmad during a visit of support to the families of the six prisoners in Jenin: There is no security, no peace, and no stability without the prisoners’ release”
“PLO Executive Committee member and Fatah Central Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad said yesterday evening, Sunday [Sept. 19, 2021]: ‘We are proud of the determination and willpower of the six prisonerswho took their freedom by force from Gilboa Prison and whom the occupation rearrested (see note below -Ed.). They conveyed their message to the entire world – without their freedom and without the establishment of our state there will be no security, peace, or stability, and we will know no rest as long as the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, which hopes for freedom and independence, are not achieved.’
During a visit of support to the families of the six prisoners, Al-Ahmad added… that these heroic prisonersput a new and awe-inspiring date into the record of our Palestinian people’s struggle and returned the Palestinian cause to the fore.He emphasized that Fatah has a clear strategy of activity on the ground to press the occupation to release all the prisoners…
Al-Ahmad noted the words of [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas, who said that ‘even if one penny is left, it will be paid to our prisoners.’ Al-Ahmad said that this is a clear message to the occupation (i.e., Israel) and to the world that we will not abandon our prisoners, the bodies of the Martyrs, and the national principles.”
PLO Executive Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad who spoke on official PA TV also serves as head of the PLO Department of Arab and Parliamentary Affairs, Fatah Central Committee member, Fatah Commissioner of National Relations, and Fatah Commissioner for Relations with Lebanon.
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.