As the prisoners emerged from the tunnel, guard dogs in the prison yard started barking, activating a warning system which trained security cameras in the direction that the dogs were barking. She later claimed that she had got up after hearing noises but didn't see anything and went back to sleep. A guard in a nearby watchtower was asleep at the time. The hole from which the prisoners emerged was directly beneath a watchtower which was unmanned due to a manpower shortage. The escape occurred on 6 September 2021, in the middle of the night, after 1:00 am. The request was accepted with no suspicions raised. A day before the escape, the most senior prisoner of the group, Zakaria Zubeidi, requested a transfer to the cell where the five other prisoners were located. The prisoners hid the entry hole under a floorboard. A guard responsible for maintaining the sewer system had noticed blockages but did not report them to prison authorities. The excavation was done with plates and pan handles, and dumped the excavated dirt in the prison's sewer system, garbage cans, and hollow shafts. A probe of the escape led by Shin Bet concluded that the digging begun as early as November 2020, and at least 11 prisoners helped dig the tunnel.
The tunnel was about 22 meters long and had been surreptitiously dug over an extended period prior to the escape.
The prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel in the prison's drainage system from the bathroom of cell number 5 in the second branch of the prison. Ĭellphone call barriers were installed in the prison, but they were activated at an inefficient level, contrary to regulations and following protests from the part of the prisoners. In August 2014, a similar escape attempt was foiled when an underground tunnel that prisoners had been digging was discovered by Israeli security forces. Shortly after, it became a separate independent prison with high security level designed for security prisoners following the Second Intifada.
Gilboa Prison opened in 2004, and first it was called Shita B as part of the Shita Prison system.
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