PA Justice Minister wrongly asserts that the Geneva Convention prevents Israel from rearresting fugitive terrorist prisoners
Headline: “The international legal status of the six prisoners: They must not be put on trial or held accountable”
“[PA] Minister of Justice Muhammad Shalaldeh said that according to Article 91 of the Third Geneva Convention, the escape of the six prisoners is considered successful (refers to 6 terrorist prisoners who escaped Gilboa Prison; see note below -Ed.)… and they must not be held accountable and put on trial before Israeli courts (sic., Article 91 of the Third Geneva Convention refers to prisoners of war, a status whose definition Palestinian terrorists do not meet). He noted that this is a text that obligates the occupying power and that it must respect and implement it, but what Israel is doing against them constitutes an outrageous violation of the principles of international humanitarian law and international law in general.”