Terrorists who briefly escaped from Israeli prison are glorified at Girls' High school
Official PA TV, on a ceremony marking Land Day – see note below – at the Arranah High School for Girls near Jenin
Deputy Chairman of the Popular Committee for Refugees in the Jenin District Fida Turkeman: “We came today [April 5, 2022] to mark the 46th anniversary of Land Day and to inaugurate the garden of the Land Day Martyrs who died as Martyrs in the Israeli Interior (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel) that has been occupied since 1967 – the people of Sakhnin, Arrabat Al-Battuf, Kafr Kanna, and the Nour Shams refugee camp. We also came to inaugurate the garden of the six freedom tunnel prisoners who shattered the occupation state’s security system in the Gilboa Prison (refers to terrorist prisoners who temporarily escaped; see note below -Ed.).”
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Deputy Chairman of the Popular Committee for Refugees in the Jenin District Fida Turkeman is seen at the event at Arranah High School for Girls near Jenin. On the wall behind him is a painting of the six terrorist prisoners who temporarily escaped Gilboa Prison making a “V” for victory with their fingers.
Land Day – annual commemoration of the general strike and demonstrations organized by Israeli Arab residents of the Galilee on March 30, 1976 to protest the Israeli government's decision to expropriate land in the Galilee for security and building purposes, which it later implemented. During the protests, demonstrators burnt tires, blocked roads, and threw rocks and firebombs. Six demonstrators were shot and killed by the Israeli army and police. Israeli Arabs and Palestinians consider Land Day a national day.
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.