TIMES OF ISRAEL
Escaped security prisoners said to have dug tunnel from their cell’s shower
by Staff
September 9, 2021

The six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped Gilboa Prison earlier this week dug a tunnel from the shower basin in their cell, according to initial findings by the Israel Prisons Service, reported Thursday night by the Kan public broadcaster. The same prison saw an attempted jailbreak in 2014, in which inmates tried to dig a tunnel under their toilet…The six escaped from the high-security prison in northern Israel in the predawn hours of Monday morning, making their way out through their cell’s drainage system in one of the most severe prison breaks in the country’s history, and prompting a massive manhunt in northern Israel and the West Bank. READ MORE

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