PLO threatens a “real explosion within the prisons and outside of them” if anything bad happens to 6 escaped terrorist prisoners
Text posted on the Facebook page of the PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs
Posted text: “The [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs holds the occupation fully responsible for the lives of the prisoners of Gilboa Prison
Sept. 6, 2021
The Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners’ Affairs asked the legal and humanitarian institutions, and particularly the International Committee of the Red Cross, to immediately go to the Gilboa Prison to reveal the fate of more than 400 prisoners who were transferred to unknown locations after six prisoners succeeded in digging a tunnel and escaping from the prison (refers to prison escape on Sept. 6, 2021 by 6 prisoners including Zakariya Zubeidi; see note below -Ed.)…
The Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs added: ‘We also hold the occupation government fully responsible for the lives of the six prisoners, as the attempt to search for them and reach them is based on criminal and systematic foundations, and harming their lives – if they find them – is liable to lead to a real explosion within the prisons and outside of them. The international community’s institutions must warn Israel and its army against the danger of doing this.’
The commission emphasized that the escape stems from the Israeli tyranny that is being directed against our male and female prisoners in the occupation prisons, whose lives are a target for attack and who are being subjected to attacks, provocations, and robbery. Medical and humanitarian crimes are also being committed against them around the clock (sic., see note below regarding PA libel on medical abuse of Palestinian prisoners)…
The commission wishes health and security to the prisoners who succeeded in escaping, and calls on the international community to bear its responsibility to protect them if they are found.”