FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2021, record photo, Israeli soldiers instrumentality positions on the borderline betwixt the bluish West Bank adjacent Jenin and Israel arsenic they hunt for 2 Palestinians who broke retired of a maximum-security situation past week, connected a roadworthy starring to the West Bank municipality of Jenin, adjacent Gan Ner Israel. The past 2 of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximum-security Israeli situation 2 weeks agone were rearrested aboriginal Sunday, Sept. 19, the Israeli subject said. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2021, record photo, Israeli soldiers instrumentality positions on the borderline betwixt the bluish West Bank adjacent Jenin and Israel arsenic they hunt for 2 Palestinians who broke retired of a maximum-security situation past week, connected a roadworthy starring to the West Bank municipality of Jenin, adjacent Gan Ner Israel. The past 2 of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximum-security Israeli situation 2 weeks agone were rearrested aboriginal Sunday, Sept. 19, the Israeli subject said. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

JERUSALEM – The past 2 of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximum-security Israeli situation 2 weeks agone were rearrested aboriginal Sunday, the Israeli subject said.

The 2 were captured during an Israeli service raid successful their hometown of Jenin successful the occupied West Bank, closing an intense, embarrassing pursuit that exposed information flaws aft the six tunneled retired of their compartment connected Sept. 6.

Palestinian media reported that clashes erupted successful Jenin erstwhile Israeli troops entered the city, but a spokesperson for Israeli constabulary said the 2 escapees, Munadil Nafayat and Iham Kamamji, were arrested without absorption from a location wherever they had taken refuge and were taken for questioning.

Fouad Kamamji, Iham’s father, told The Associated Press that his lad had called him erstwhile the Israeli troops surrounded the location and said helium volition surrender “in bid not to endanger the location owners.”

The escapes acceptable disconnected a monolithic pursuit cognition that captured the archetypal 4 inmates successful 2 abstracted operations successful bluish Israel. All six inmates travel from Jenin.

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Five of the prisoners are from the Islamic Jihad militant group, with 4 of them serving beingness sentences, and the sixth is simply a subordinate of the secular Fatah radical of President Mahmoud Abbas.

For the Palestinians, the prisoners who dug the passageway for months and escaped were “heroes.” For Israel, they were “terrorists” who took portion oregon planned attacks that targeted the Israeli subject and civilians.

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Associated Press newsman Jelal Hassan successful Ramallah, West Bank, contributed to this report.

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