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| Questions Plague Israeli Security Forces after Jailbreak |
| 2021-09-08 |
| [ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Israeli authorities remained short on answers Tuesday over how six Paleostinian prisoners’ escape from a high-security jail went unnoticed and where they could have gone, with a vast manhunt still underway. The group’s early-morning flight, through a hole made below a sink in a Gilboa prison cell to a tiny tunnel exit discovered by guards and police early Monday morning, sounds almost like a plotline from Israeli-Paleostinian conflict drama "Fauda". In fact, it has made the escapees "heroes" to many Paleostinians, with celebrations in the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank. But the full weight of Israel’s security arsenal has been deployed to catch them, including aerial drones, checkpoints on roads and an army mission to Jenin, where many of the men locked up for their roles in attacks on the Jewish state grew up. The search continued as the country was celebrating Rosh Hashana (the Jewish new year) on Tuesday, more than 24 hours after the "Great Escape" hailed by some Paleostinian newspapers. "We have made no progress at present," said a front man for police in northern Israel, where the Gilboa prison has stood since its construction during the Second Intifada or uprising against Israel. "But all branches of the security forces have been mobilized to find the prisoners, whether it’s the army, the Shin Bet (internal security service), the police, border guards, and their special units," the front man added. An Israeli injunction is in effect against publishing details of the investigation, even as local media report on the scramble to recover from the embarrassing slip-up and prevent any possible attack by the runaways. ASLEEP AT THE SCREEN? There are many possible destinations for the band, from their nearby West Bank home to the shelter of the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip, ruled by the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", movement and a refuge for the "Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... " group to which five of the six belong. They could even have tried to cross the border to another country altogether. It was "very probable" that the men crossed into Jordan, whose frontier lies only around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the prison, a police source told Israeli daily Haaretz Tuesday. The paper also reported that a car may have picked up some or all of the escapees three kilometers from the prison on Monday. Another branch of the probe is focusing on how the escape succeeded without the prison guards noticing a thing. Public broadcaster Kan reported that the men were visible on surveillance cameras as they wriggled out of the tunnel exit -- but no-one was monitoring the screens at the time. One guard in charge of that sector of the prison may even have been asleep on duty, Kan added. Meanwhile a journalist for the Maariv newspaper said that constructing the tunnel could have taken the inmates as long as five months, according to elements from the investigation. |
| Posted by:Fred |