A guard arrived at the cell while a bomb was being thrown in the pit, dogs were barking but the guard was watching the film

September 17, 2021   

An unimaginable series of failures: A guard arrived at the security prisoners' cell in Gilboa Prison while he was in the middle of digging the tunnel - but did not catch the action. Obey the 'Torah' and celebrate Sukkot safely: This way you are 10 times more protected New specifications published by Liran Levy on the 'Walla' website, It is once again clear that the digging of the hole from which the six security prisoners in Gilboa Prison escaped was done under the guards' noses. Information provided by a senior source familiar with the details reveals that a guard arrived at the cell with a message to deliver to prisoner Mondal Infiat Ya'qub, while at the same time the terrorist was digging the exit. His cellmate, prisoner Mahmoud Abdullah al-Aarda, immediately approached the guard, who was standing outside the cell, and explained to him that Mondal was very tired and had gone to sleep. The guard insisted on speaking to Mondal, but in vain. Aarda managed to convince him that Mondal was indeed sleeping, and that he would deliver the message to him. The guard gave up and left the cell. If he had insisted on speaking to Mondal himself or opening the cell door, the incident would have been avoided. The details published in 'Walla' also indicate that the tunnel was dug mainly during the day. The excavation was carried out mainly by prisoner Mondal Infiat Yaakov, using, among other things, the handles of old frying pans that were heated on a hotplate and sharpened by the prisoners for the purpose of digging. A leg of an iron bed that was dismantled and sharpened also helped in digging the tunnel. A senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told Walla that a Gilboa prison staff member who was in the prison control room during the night, and was supposed to watch the screens in the control room and make sure everything was in order, did not watch the cameras. However, Walla noted that there is a suspicion that the guard was watching television for his own enjoyment, and did not notice the documentation of the escape recorded by the cameras - nor the alarm that was activated. Another omission: When the terrorists began to emerge from the tunnel shaft, the dogs in the prison yard began to bark. The Prison Service has technology that sends an alert to the prison control room when the dogs bark, and in addition, when the alarm is activated, the prison security cameras lock onto the area where the dogs are barking and record what is happening - however, it appears that the staff member who was in the prison control room that night was busy watching television, and did not notice that the alarm was activated. The six terrorists lingered near the shaft entrance for about twenty minutes, then began fleeing toward the agricultural area near the prison. The security camera footage was captured by security forces for further investigation. Defense attorney Eyal Basarglik, a criminal law expert and white-collar worker, told Walla: "The terrorists' escape is a real scandal. The guard falling asleep, the lack of supervision of the cameras, Zubeidi's transfer to a cell belonging to another faction from which he escaped that night, and now the warden's visit to deliver the message to the prisoner who dug while they were searching for him. This is a serious oversight that caused a lot of damage and must be investigated to the end." The terrorist Infiat Ya'qub Mondal, who dug the tunnel, has not yet been caught, and the hunt for him and his accomplice Fuad Nayef Kamamji is still ongoing.