The six cellmates escaped from Gilboa prison around 1:30 a.m. But he was arrested again in 2019, accused of helping to orchestrate attacks on Israeli settlers. Zubeidi helped to run the Freedom Theater in his hometown, Jenin, in the northern West Bank. Zubeidi and Mohammad al-Arida, being led by officers to police cars.Īfter the intifada, Mr. More video released by the police on Saturday morning showed two blindfolded men, said to be Mr. Israeli news outlets reported that the pair had been arrested after a tip by Nazareth residents, who said they had asked for food. Video published by the Israeli news media showed the two prisoners who were captured Friday handcuffed inside police cars, wearing civilian clothes. The other three recaptured inmates are members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed Islamist militant group, and have been serving life sentences for involvement in attacks on Israeli civilians, the police said. Zubeidi was a prominent militant leader during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in the 2000s, and was a former commander of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group loosely affiliated with Fatah, the secular group that dominates Palestinian politics in the occupied West Bank. A second pair, Zakaria Zubeidi and Mohammad al-Arida, Mahmoud’s brother, were seized on Saturday morning in a truck parking lot in Umm el-Ghanem, a village east of Nazareth. Two of the prisoners, Mahmoud al-Arida and Yaqoub Qadri, were captured Friday night on the southern edge of Nazareth, in northern Israel, five days after they had escaped through a hole in the floor of the shower cubicle in their cell and tunneled out of a prison about 15 miles southeast of the city. JERUSALEM - The Israeli police said on Saturday that they had captured four of the six Palestinian fugitives who escaped a maximum-security prison this week, in a case seen as a rare humiliation of the country’s security establishment.
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