Two of six Palestinian inmates who escaped from a high security prison in northern Israel this week have been captured, police say
Israeli soldiers guard along a fence leading to the occupied West Bank, by the village of Muqeibila in northern Israel, on September 9, 2021.
Video on social media showed Israeli officers putting two men into the back of separate police vehicles.Israel had launched a manhunt for the six prisoners who made a daring jail break on Monday from the high security Gilboa prison through a tunnel dug beneath a sink in a cell. One of the wanted men is Mahmud Abdullah Ardah, from Arraba near Jenin, who was imprisoned in 1996 for attacks on Israel claimed by Islamic Jihad.Ardah was held in solitary confinement in 2014 after an escape tunnel was found at Israel's Shata prison, according to his Islamic Jihad biography.
The facility the men escaped from, about 4 km from the boundary with the occupied West Bank, is one of the highest-security jails in Israel.An Israeli injunction is in effect against publishing details of the prison break investigation, even as local media report on the scramble to recover from the embarrassing lapse and prevent any possible attack by the fugitives.
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