Israel catches two more escaped Palestinian militants, police say By Reuters

By Rami Ayyub

NAZARETH, Israel (Reuters) -Israeli forces on Saturday captured two extra of the six Palestinian militants who escaped from a most safety jail this week, a police spokesperson stated.

The 2 males have been present in a truck parking zone in an Arab village in northern Israel, close to town of Nazareth, the place two different escapees have been captured hours earlier.

Their dramatic jail break on Monday, by means of a gap of their jail cell ground, delighted Palestinians and embarrassed Israel.

Footage distributed by Israel Police confirmed officers main the 2 males, blindfold and handcuffed, right into a police automobile as a seek for two extra inmates who’re nonetheless at giant continued.

The six males have both been convicted or are suspected of planning or finishing up lethal assaults towards Israelis.

Mohammad al-Arda, brother of Mahmoud al-Arda, a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group who escaped and was captured on Friday, stated it appeared that although the precise jail break was meticulously deliberate, its subsequent phases have been missing.

“There was no again up from the within nor coordination with the surface,” al-Arda stated. Saddened by his brother’s seize he stated he was nonetheless blissful about what he described as a blow to enemy morale.

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper stated a suspicious villager had tipped off police when he was approached by haggard-looking males who had requested for meals and a experience, whereas navy trackers closed in on the lads’s escape routes.

‘WE ARE IN GREAT PAIN’

One of many males captured on Saturday was Zakaria Zubeidi, a high-profile former commander of the Fatah group’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades within the West Financial institution metropolis of Jenin through the second Palestinian rebellion.

The opposite 5 prisoners are Islamic Jihad members.

Zubeidi, who as soon as acquired Israeli amnesty, was rearrested by Israel in 2019 after his alleged involvement in latest taking pictures assaults.

Zubeidi’s household stated that his grandfather was one among 66 inmates who had escaped an Israeli jail in 1958 after a lethal jail riot. Reuters was unable to confirm this account.

Some relations of Zubeidi’s Israeli victims had voiced shock and anger over his escape.

“We’re in nice ache. Zakaria Zubeidi was the instigator of the assault by which my father was murdered, one among six victims,” Hila, the daughter of Ehud Avitan who was killed in a 2002 Palestinian assault in Israel, instructed N12’s Information on Monday.

Israeli officers have pledged a radical investigation into obvious safety lapses that allowed their escape.

Palestinians see members of armed teams jailed in Israeli prisons as heroes of their battle for statehood in territory Israel captured within the 1967 Center East struggle. Israel says Palestinians concerned in violent anti-Israeli actions are terrorists.

“We hope the brothers who broke the chain and are nonetheless free get protected to base,” stated Bassam Assadi, an Islamic Jihad chief in Jenin.