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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_date_start":"2022-05-23 09:17:18","content_date_event":"2022-05-23 09:17:18","content_date_event_start":null,"content_date_event_end":null,"content_show_title_slider":1,"content_date_last_edit":"2022-05-23 09:26:09","content_date_register":"2022-05-23 09:26:07","content_columns":0,"content_show_img":1,"content_show_details":0,"content_show_related_img":0,"content_show_slider":1,"content_comment":1,"content_score":0,"tag_id":0,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"uid":44,"eid":44,"attach_title":"6 Palestinians sentenced to extra 5 years for jail break\r\n 2","attaches":[{"sizes":{"150":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202205\/503993_2237219872_150_84.webp","300":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202205\/503993_2237219872_300_169.webp","400":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202205\/503993_2237219872_400_225.webp","600":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202205\/503993_2237219872_600_338.webp","900":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202205\/503993_2237219872_900_506.webp","1200":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202205\/503993_2237219872_1024_576.jpg"},"ext":"jpg","file_media":1,"token":2237219872,"files":{"original":{"url":".\/file\/2\/attach\/202205\/503993_2237219872.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"size":0}}}]}]]