International law gives Palestinian terrorists the “right” to break out of prison and "liberate themselves," claims PLO
Headline: “Prisoner Kifah Hattab continues his hunger strike as a sign of solidarity with the prisoners who succeeded in taking their freedom by force”
“The [PLO] Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs announced yesterday [Sept. 12, 2021] that prisoner Kifah Hattab (i.e., terrorist, involved in the murder of 2 people) from Tulkarem, who was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to life, is holding an unlimited hunger strike for this the second day in a row as a sign of solidarity with the prisoners who succeeded in liberating themselves from Gilboa Prison (see note below -Ed.)…
The commission explained in a press release that prisoner Hattab has done a number of unlimited hunger strikes, and this is because he and the rest of his prisoner comrades are prisoners of warwho defended their homeland and not criminals (sic., convicted Palestinian terrorists do not meet the definition of prisoners of war), and therefore it is their right to be liberated by force of the international agreements and the Geneva Accords.”
Kifah Hattab – Palestinian terrorist, PA Security Forces member, and head of a Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) cell that murdered Israeli Rabbi Aharon Ovadian in Baqa Al-Gharabiya in northern Israel on July 2, 2001. Hattab was also involved in the murder of a Palestinian who was suspected of aiding Israel. Hattab is serving 2 life sentences.
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.