Zakaria Zubeidi said allowed into cell with other 5 escapees day before jailbreak, blueprint of prison was available online, and watchtower guard slept through the whole episode
TOI STAFF 6 September 2021, 11:22 pm
In this photo provided by Israel’s Prisons Service, Israeli security personnel inspect a cell after six Palestinians escaped through a tunnel the Gilboa prison in north Israel, on Monday, September 6, 2021. (Israeli Prisons Service via AP)
Prison building plans posted online, guards blind to digging occurring under their noses, a watchtower manned by a sleeping recruit, and a fumbled report of suspicious figures.
These were just some of the blunders and oversights that helped six highly dangerous Palestinian security prisoners tunnel out of one of Israel’s most secure prisons in the early hours of Monday and evade capture for a day and counting.
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