Curator's note:
This poster features the six Palestinians who escaped from Gilboa Prison
Palestine de Papel is a play on the title and poster from a Spanish-produced Netflix crime program aired on Israeli TV: Casa de la Papel (Money Heist)
Click here to view the original Casa de la Papel poster
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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. The tunnel was about 22 meters long and had been surreptitiously dug over an extended period prior to the escape. The prisoners had hidden the entry hole under a floorboad. 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 request was accepted with no suspicions raised. The escape occurred on 6 September 2021, in the middle of the night, after 1:00 am. The hole from which the prisoners emerged was directly beneath a watchtower. The guard who had been manning the tower later admitted to having been asleep at the time. The prisoners left their prison uniforms outside the tunnel and changed clothes. According to Israeli security sources cited by Channel 12, they then proceeded on foot for three kilometers to a waiting vehicle. Some got into the vehicle while others continued on foot.
Source: Wikipedia