The males escaped from Gilboa jail, which lies between the Sea of Galilee in Israel and the West Bank city of Jenin.

An image of a tunnel entrance purportedly utilized by the prisoners to flee has been broadly shared on Palestinian social media, and Israeli media are reporting the boys used a tunnel to get out, however police haven’t but confirmed it.

Zakaria Zubeidi, a commander within the militant wing of the Palestinian political occasion Fatah, is among the escapees, in accordance with a Palestinian prisoner help group. The different 5 are all reported to be members of the militant group Islamic Jihad.

Islamic Jihad stated in an announcement that the jail break was a “major heroic act” and a “severe slap to the Israeli army and the entire system in Israel.”