PA Grand Mufti praises 6 terrorist fugitives – "peace to our heroic prisoners and those of them who were liberated"
Headline: “The occupation announced the arrest of two of the Gilboa [Prison] prisoners and raided the Ashkelon Prison [cells]”
“Approximately 40,000 worshippers held the Friday prayers yesterday [Sept. 10, 2021] at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque plazas under heightened [security] measures by the occupation authorities.
From the Saladin Pulpit in the Southern Mosque (i.e., the Al-Aqsa Mosque itself), [PA] Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories and preacher at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Muhammad Hussein praised the male and female prisoners and said: ‘Peace to our heroic prisoners and those of them who were liberated (refers to Gilboa Prison escape; see note below -Ed.), and the greatest sacrifice is that a man become a Martyr or prisoner, and the occupation will not weaken the resolve of the prisoners’ movement.’”
Muhammad Hussein also serves as Deputy Secretary-General and acting Secretary-General of the PLO Popular National Conference of Jerusalem.
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.