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Six Palestinians were sentenced Sunday to an additional five years in jail for a 2021 escape through a tunnel from a prison in northern Israel, their lawyers told Israeli media. <\/span>
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The six, already serving life terms for anti-Israeli attacks, escaped on September 6 last year from Gilbao prison through a tunnel dug under a sink.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Hailed as "heroes" by the Palestinians, their escape triggered a massive manhunt by army reinforcements and drones before their capture two weeks later.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Apart from the extra prison sentences, the men were each fined 5,000 shekels (about $160). <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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"My client told the court he did not regret the escape because he had nothing to lose," lawyer Raslan Mahajana told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Among the escapees was Mahmud Ardah, a member of the militant Islamic Jihad group, considered the mastermind of the operation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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After he was recaptured, Ardah said he had used spoons, plates and even the handle of a kettle to dig the tunnel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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He escaped along with Zakaria al-Zubeidi, a chief of the armed branch of president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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His brother, Daoud al-Zubeidi, was killed on May 15 in an Israeli army operation in Jenin refugee camp on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<\/span><\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2022-05-23 09:17:18","content_date_finish":"2022-05-23 09:17:18","content_date_register":"2022-05-23 09:26:07","content_date_last_edit":"2022-05-23 09:26:09","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2237219872","attach_date_register":"2022-05-23 09:26:05","attach_id":"503993","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"1024","attach_img_height":"576","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"1","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"437","visit_date_last":"2024-04-24 01:31:34","attach_title":"6 Palestinians sentenced to extra 5 years for jail break\r\n 2","node_title":"news,Political,Latest news,West Asia","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53},{\"node_id\":136, \"left\":29, \"right\":32},{\"node_id\":144, \"left\":49, \"right\":50},{\"node_id\":149, \"left\":59, \"right\":60}]"}]]