Palestinians celebrate as 6 militants escape Israel’s high-security prison

Israeli security tightened its presence around Gilboa prison on Monday after six Palestinian militants broke out of a high-security Israeli prison in what Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called a grave incident.

Israeli police and the military had started a search after the escape from Gilboa prison in northern Israel.

Five of the fugitives belong to the Islamic Jihad movement and one is a former commander of an armed group affiliated with the mainstream Fatah party, the Prisons Service said.

Arik Yaacov, the service's northern commander, said the escapees appeared to have opened a hole from their cell toilet floor to access passages formed by the prison's construction.

A police spokesman said security forces believed the fugitives might try to reach the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority exercises limited self-rule or the Jordanian border some 14 kilometres to the east.

Palestinians celebrated in the streets of Gaza after hearing the news while several factions hailed the jailbreak.

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