Prisoner Al-Ardah receives death threats from Israeli prisoners
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The Israeli "Eshel" prison administration ignores the harassment and death threats that the isolated prisoner Mohammad Al-Ardah is subject to by Israeli prisoners.
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Prisoner Mohammad Al-Ardah
Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation revealed Saturday that Mohammad Al-Ardah, the isolated detainee in the Israeli “Eshel” prison, is receiving death threats from Israeli prisoners - which poses a real danger to his life.
In a letter that the Foundation received a copy of, Al-Ardah indicated that the "Eshel" prison administration keeps him in a solitary confinement cell in a section that houses Israeli prisoners. The prison administration also ignores the harassment and threats that Al-Ardah is subject to and even imposes severe circumstances on him even when in isolation.
Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation holds the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the life of Al-Ardah, calling on human rights institutions, especially the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Human Rights Council, to intervene to put an end to this attack on Al-Ardah and the prisoners of the Freedom Tunnel, as well as the rest of the Palestinian prisoners.
The Foundation also called for working to end and expose the violations of the Israeli occupation Prisons Authority against prisoners, warning that compromising the prisoners' lives would ignite the situation both inside and outside prisons.
Prisoner Mohammad Al-Ardah was born in the town of Arraba, Jenin District. He was arrested in an Israeli ambush on January 7, 2002, and was then released in mid-March 2002. On May 16, 2002, he was besieged and arrested in Ramallah, and he received three life sentences plus 20 years of imprisonment for being a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and partaking in Resistance operations against the Israeli occupation.
Al-Ardah and his fellow prisoners Zakaria Al-Zubaidi, Munadel Nafi'at, Yaqoub Qadri, Ayham Kamamji, and Mahmoud Al-Ardah, were able to liberate themselves by tunneling out of the Gilboa maximum security prison on September 6, 2021.
Mahmoud Al-Ardah and Yaqoub Qadri were re-arrested four days later, on September 10, 2021 in Al-Nasra. Al-Zubaidi and Mohammad Al-Arida were re-arrested the next day, while Kamamji and Nafi'at were arrested on Sunday the 19th, after the house they had barricaded themselves in, east of Jenin, was surrounded.
