Israel’s Walla news website reported that Israel Prison Service, IPS, had discovered on Thursday a tunnel dug by Palestinian prisoners detained in Shatta Prison.
The website said that the prison authorities had announced a state of emergency and summoned a large force from the Nachshon Unit to evacuate all prisoners to other prisons.
The site revealed that Palestinian prisoners in Shatta maximum security prison were preparing to try to escape by digging a tunnel underneath the sections within a diameter of up to half a meter deep and four meters long.
The Israeli Intelligence Service arrived at the prison and began an intensive inspection operation where they found clothes and a stick belonging to the IPS hidden in one of the sections which looked like it would assist in the escape and harm the prison guards.
The site pointed out that the prison authorities and the Shin Bet security service began to investigate every possible scenario of the tunnel’s use including the possibility of digging it for other purposes such as to conceal items prohibited by the prison service.
IPS in Shatta Prison moved all the prisoners in the afternoon hastily to Megiddo and Gilboa prisons without reasons, in the presence of large numbers of police and army prison.
The Shatta prison holds 120 prisoners.
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