Fatah praises “the quality blow and great humiliation” that 6 Palestinian terrorists who escaped from Gilboa prison inflicted on Israel
Headline: “The Fatah Central Committee: Harming the prisoners, regardless of their affiliation, is a blow to Fatah and all the Palestinians”
“The Fatah Movement Central Committee emphasized its absolute rejection and clear condemnation of the Israeli attacks against the brave prisoners, and this is in a desperate attempt by Israel to respond and rehabilitate its image, particularly after the quality blow and the great humiliation that it suffered after six heroic prisoners achieved their freedom from the fortified ‘Gilboa’ Prison (refers to Gilboa Prison escape; see note below -Ed.).
In a statement that it published yesterday, Friday [Sept. 9, 2021], the Fatah Central Committee expressed its complete solidarity with the prisoners who are standing firm behind bars and with the liberated prisoners, and it warned the occupation against the consequences of harassing the prisoners’ movement.”
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.