RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Ramallah- 02 July 2022. Palestinians attend the discussion of the Master of prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi in Israeli Jails at Birzeit University in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

STORYLINE

Zakaria Zubeidi is the former Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Zakaria was born in 1976. He is considered a "symbol of the Intifada" and was on Israel's most-wanted list for several years. In an interview in 2005 he assumed responsibility for the 2002 Beit She'an attack that killed 6 people. He pledged to put away his weapons as part of an Israeli amnesty in 2007, though he never gave his guns up in the sense of relinquishing them to the authorities. Zubeidi nevertheless agreed to give up violence, and after a three-month probation period, was removed from Israel's wanted list. He subsequently devoted himself to 'cultural resistance' in the form of support for the Freedom Theatre at the Jenin Refugee Camp.

On September 6, 2021, he escaped from the Gilboa Prison in Israel's North, together with five other Palestinian prisoners, through a tunnel that they had dug. Five days later, on September 11, 2021, Zubeidi was caught near the Israeli village of Kfar Tavor.

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