The hero of “Freedom Tunnel” was released; Who is Mohammad Al-Aradeh?
reported by Mehr News Agency quoted by Al-Mayadeen, while the Hamas movement has intelligently prepared the list of Palestinian prisoners who should be released during the exchange of prisoners with the Zionist regime, and the prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment and heavy sentences in this The list includes, last day in In the second phase of the exchange of prisoners, which is carried out in the framework of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, “Mohammed Al-Ardeh” one of the heroes of the famous “Freedom Tunnel” operation was released after years of captivity.
Muhammad al-Ardeh is one of the six Palestinian prisoners who escaped from Jalboa prison, the most secure prison of the Zionist regime, by digging a tunnel on 15 September 1400. A few days after this historic escape, he was arrested again by the occupying forces.
Who is Mohammad Al-Aradeh?
Mohammed Qasim Al-Ardeh was born on September 3, 1982 in the Arabah region, south of Jenin, located in the north of the West Bank, and completed his primary, elementary and secondary education in this city.
Al-Ardeh on May 16, 2002, while the Zionist occupation forces surrounded him in a building located in Ramallah city, on the charge of being a member of the battalions affiliated with Saraya al-Quds (the military branch of the Movement Islamic Jihad) and participating in the operations of these battalions against the Zionist regime, was sentenced to life imprisonment three times and 20 years of separate imprisonment.
This freed Palestinian prisoner spent his sentence in Shata prison of the Zionist regime near the city of Bisan in the center of the West Bank. At that time, he had dug a tunnel to escape from prison, but the Zionists found out and took him to solitary confinement, where he remained until 2014.
Escape from the prison of the Zionist regime
But the efforts of Mohammad Al-Ardeh did not stop and on September 6, 2021, equivalent to 15 Shahrivar 1400, his name was among five other Palestinian prisoners in Jalboa prison who carried out the great freedom tunnel operation and were able to It was recorded to escape from the most secure prison of the Zionist regime. On the 11th of this month, the Zionist occupation regime arrested Mohammad Al-Ardeh again and transferred him to solitary confinement, and all kinds of tortures were imposed on him. The court of the Zionist regime issued a new sentence for him and sentenced him to another 5 years of imprisonment.
Mohammed al-Aradeh, in addition to the heroic operations against the Zionist regime, has several works, among the most prominent of which are “Jihad Jurisprudence”, “Sheikh Ghazali’s Influence on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement” and the novel ” Trips” pointed out. Finally, this heroic Palestinian fighter was released yesterday, January 25, 2025, during the prisoner exchange deal with the Zionist regime.
