“The honor of heroism and sacrifice": PA praises Palestinian fugitive terrorist murderers who "succeeded in taking their freedom" from Israeli prison
Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, on the recapture of the last of the 6 terrorist prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison – see note below
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An image is shown of Islamic Jihad terrorist prisoners Munadil Nafiyat and Ayham Kamamji, the last two of six escaped terrorists to be recaptured – see note below.
Text on image: “The honor of heroism and sacrifice
Munadil Nafiyat and Ayham Kamamji
The freedom tunnel”
Director of PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs Qadri Abu Bakr: “From the beginning we defined the operation (refers to escape of 6 terrorist prisoners from Gilboa Prison -Ed.) as an extraordinary heroic operation, of which there are few like it. The six prisoners succeeded in taking their freedom, whether or not they were arrested [again afterwards]. This is an operation that will be studied… it will be studied throughout the Palestinian generations that it was a success and an act of heroism and the like. And it will be studied among the Israelis as a failure and a mishap in the security and military system.”
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.