The story of six Palestinian prisoners escaping a heavily-guarded Israeli prison on Monday filled the global news feed and was hailed by Palestinian factions as a “big victory.” To many sympathizing with the Palestinian cause the latest episode of the Palestinian prison break is a testament to Palestinian resilience and their determination to end the Israeli occupation Israeli media reported that the six inmates were cellmates serving life sentences and that they dug a dozen meters long tunnel to escape the jail As Israeli police continue with their manhunt for the six detainees this report will list down the most notable Palestinian prison break operations Shata prison witnessed its largest Palestinian escape from Israeli jails on July 31 about 190 Palestinian prisoners overpowered their warders Palestinian prisoner Hamza Younes successfully managed to escape from prison three times he made his first escape from Ashkelon prison This was followed by another escape while hospitalized in 1967 and the third was in 1971 from Ramla prison managed to escape during his transfer from one prison to another in November 1969 A nine-month-long manhunt by Israeli security forces failed to hunt him down and Hammad found his way out to Jordan escaped from a court in Ramallah on January 27 he turned himself in after days of Israeli manhunt the escape from Gaza prison took place after inmates managed to cut the bars of the toilet window he made several attempts to escape from Beersheba prison Others with al-Suri during the escape were Saleh Ishtiwi was eventually killed in a gunfight with the Israeli forces Al-Jamal and Khalil were also killed in the following months Ishtiwi was nabbed after being on the run for seven days while al-Saftawi and Saleh found their way out of Gaza and Kamal Abd al-Nabi succeeded in escaping from Nafha prison in 1987 arrested eight days later as they were trying to leave for Egypt Jenin-born prisoner Omar al-Nayef managed to escape from prison four years after his arrest as he was being transferred to a hospital for treatment in Bethlehem due to a hunger strike Al-Nayef managed to escape to Jordan and then to Bulgaria in 1994 he was assassinated inside the Palestinian embassy building in Bulgaria on February 26 inmates Ghassan Mahdawi and Tawfiq al-Zaben escaped from Kfar Yona prison through an 11-meter tunnel in the first Palestinian prisoner escape through a tunnel Israel was able to re-arrest Mahdawi the following year while al-Zaben was captured in 2000 16 prisoners dug a 17 meters underground tunnel in Ashkelon prison in an attempt to escape the blockage of the sewage network caused by the digging raised the prison administration's suspicions and the operation was thwarted tried to escape by digging an underground tunnel inside the cell but were met by sniffer dogs just as they got out of the prison and were arrested again Israeli Prison Authority announced on August 4 that it had aborted a mass escape attempt by prisoners from Gilboa prison after digging a tunnel from a cell toilet The Israeli Prison Authority said that it had thwarted a Palestinian prisoner's attempt to escape through a ventilation power in the Eshel prison in the southern city of Beersheba on October 10 Site developed by     Copyright © Yedioth Internet