MANHUNT AFTER PALESTINIANS ESCAPE PRISON SERIES

MANHUNT AFTER PALESTINIANS ESCAPE PRISON SERIES

вЂњThe amount of energy and efforts needed to fix the series of mistakes and failures that simply did not need to happen is enormous,вЂќ the prime minister said. Prison officials also reportedly missed signs of digging right under their noses.Д«ennett Sunday said the prison break was a вЂњwake-up call.вЂќ For example, the prisonвЂ™s blueprint was available to the public online, one watchtower guard slept through the incident while another watchtower overlooking the prisonвЂ™s exit was unmanned. Israeli media reported several blunders by prison officials that contributed to the prison break. The six men tunneled out of IsraelвЂ™s Gilboa prison in an escape that embarrassed prison officials and exposed major flaws in the countryвЂ™s security system.

вЂњWe have to maintain heightened readiness and continue until the mission is complete,вЂќ Bennett said. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett praised authorities for finding the four fugitives and said they will find the remaining two. Hours earlier, police arrested two of the escapees in Nazareth after they were spotted digging through trash looking for food. Police found Zubeidi and another fugitive in a parking lot in ShibliвЂ“Umm al-Ghanam. All six escapees were serving time for terrorism, including the notorious Fatah terror leader Zakaria Zubeidi, who was among the men captured on Saturday. They appeared before court late Saturday evening where prosecutors are pushing terrorism charges following their escape.

The men appeared to have received no help following their escape and had no planned route for where to go, Israeli media reported. The men managed to evade capture for five days, but police found them after local Israeli Arabs spotted them and tipped authorities off. The four men were caught on Saturday during a pair of arrests in the northern Israeli towns of Nazareth and ShibliвЂ“Umm al-Ghanam. JERUSALEM, Israel вЂ“ Israeli police re-captured four of the Palestinian prisoners who escaped from one of the countryвЂ™s maximum-security detention facilities last week and are still looking for two fugitives who remain at large.

Manhunt after palestinians escape prison