Palestine (IP): Six Palestinian prisoners had managed to escape from a high-security jail in northern Israel early on Monday.

Iran PressMiddle East: The prisoners escaped from Gilboa prison, which is considered one of Israel’s most secured facilities. Such breakouts are extremely rare.

In a statement, Spokesman for Palestine's Resistance Movement (Hamas) Fawzi Barhoum termed the prison break as a “big victory.”

"This victory proves again that the will and determination of our prisoners in the Israeli prisons are invincible and undefeatable whatsoever the challenges are," said Barhoum.

“Overnight, we received a number of reports about suspicious figures in agricultural fields and from the prison service, which discovered very quickly that prisoners were missing from their cells and that six escaped,” police Spokesman Eli Levy told Israeli Kan Radio.

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