On September 6, 2021, six Palestinian political prisoners escaped from Gilboa prison, one of the highest security prisons of the Israeli apartheid state.  They escaped through a tunnel that they had been digging for almost a year.  They painstakingly excavated the entrance to the tunnel from the concrete floor underneath the sink in their prison cell.   The plan was accomplished with the most basic implements – spoons, plates and pan handles – while applying the most sophisticated secrecy and coordination to the operation.   The escape represented a major security and intelligence failure for the Israeli state which tries to present itself as invulnerable. More

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