An Israeli channel reveals the first details of the interrogation of the four prisoners

Channel 12 on Israeli television published the first details of the interrogation of the four Palestinian prisoners who escaped, along with two others, from Gilboa prison last week, and were subsequently arrested.

The channel said in a report this evening, Sunday, that since the arrest of the former commander of the “Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades” Zakaria Al-Zubaidi yesterday morning, he was interrogated on the ground and interrogated also after he was transferred to the investigation center of the General Security Service (Shin Bet), and at the same time he cooperated and answered the question. Investigators’ questions.

“But in the evening, after his lawyer appealed to the court, Zubeidi decided to remain silent and not answer questions,” she added.
And she continued, “From the information collected so far, and mainly from what Al-Zubaidi said, it seems that the original intention of the six escaped prisoners was to reach Jenin. This is also the reason for adding Al-Zubaidi to the escape operation,” noting that Jenin, located in the north of the occupied West Bank, is his hometown. His head is the other.

According to the channel: “When the six left the tunnel that was dug outside Gilboa prison where they were staying, they walked 7.5 kilometers, to the village of Naoura – where they bathed and shaved their hair in the mosque. They stayed there for less than an hour, and upon leaving they tried to communicate with the local residents who asked them to He took them to Jenin, but the residents refused to cooperate with them.”

At the same time, the fleeing prisoners heard that the police and the Israeli army had summoned large forces to the line of contact (the separation between Israel and the West Bank), and then realized that the goal of reaching Jenin had become almost impossible. At this point, they decided to change direction, scrap the original version of the plan, and hide near Israeli towns, believing that there would be little chance of being caught there.

And the channel continued: “After that, they decided to split into 3 pairs, each choosing a different escape route. But what exhausted them in the end was fatigue, hunger, and the large deployment of the security forces that were looking for them.”

And last Monday, 6 Palestinian prisoners managed to escape from the high-security Gilboa prison in northern Israel, and since Friday evening, the Israeli security forces managed to re-arrest 4 of them.

The Arab city of Nazareth, inside the Green Line, witnessed the arrest of the two prisoners, Mahmoud Al-Ardah and Yaqoub Qadri. Yesterday, Saturday morning, the Israeli police announced the arrest of Zakaria Al-Zubaidi and Muhammad Al-Ardah in Umm Al-Ghanam (north).

And the Israeli security forces are intensifying their efforts to arrest the two remaining prisoners, Munadel Nafi’at and Ayham Kammamji.

“They are in a state of desperation and may commit an extremist act,” said the Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli Police, Yaakov Shiftai, commenting on the continued search for Nafeat and Kamamchi, and instructed to secure the Israeli settlements and towns in the north of the country.