2 Palestinian escapees from southern prison caught
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Police succeeded in catching two Palestinian prisoners who escaped from the Ketziot Prison in the South on Wednesday night.
Guards discovered the ends of a rope dangling from the prison walls earlier, and the two were discovered missing after a head count.
The Israeli Prisons Service and police then conducted a wide-ranging search for the fugitives.
The two men, Gaza residents affiliated with Fatah, had been sentenced to three and seven years imprisonment respectively for illegal residence in Israel.