PLO official complains prisons are cutting access to PA TV after prison escape
Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning
Deputy Director-General of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Abd Al-‘Al Al-Anani: “First, the prisoner’s will defeated the prison guard (refers to 6 terrorist prisoners including Zakariya Zubeidi escaping prison; see note below -Ed.). In effect the alleged Israeli security system – this conception fell apart and shattered before the rock of our heroic prisoners’ resolve…
There is the issue of the TV channels and viewing [official] PA TV [in prison] – they are canceling a number of channels so that there will be no monitoring of what is happening or of any information that will reach the prisoners about what is happening. There is even a new military order from the occupation that rules that even for Arabic media [there is] a ban on publication of any detail regarding the investigations being carried out about the escape. In effect our prisoners are always in a state of unity. And the proof is that the national unity was manifested even in the escape. Our brother fighter Zakariya Zubeidi (i.e., terrorist, responsible for numerous attacks) is one of the symbols of the Fatah Movement, and the brothers, his comrades [who escaped with him] are from the Islamic Jihad. This is proof of how the national status inside the prisons – there are no differences at all. Everyone is living in the same conditions, the same suffering.”