Mick Hartley

From the Times of Israel, after the recapture of escaped terrorist prisoners:

Iham Kamamji and Munadil Nafiyat, both members of the Islamic Jihad terror group, were apprehended in the West Bank city of Jenin, the Israel Defense Forces said early Sunday. Kamamji and Nafiyat were among six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison in northern Israel earlier this month. The arrests of the two fugitives — a week after the four other escaped prisoners were recaptured in northern Israel — brings to a close a massive 13-day manhunt following one of the worst jailbreaks in Israel’s history.

After the Shin Bet released images of the two men following their capture on Sunday, the photos were doctored to show the nabbed fugitives smiling broadly…

Iham Kamamji in an image from the Shin Bet (left) and one doctored for social media (right). (Shin Bet/Screenshot)

Munadil Nafiyat in an image from the Shin Bet (left) and one doctored for social media (right). (Shin Bet/Screenshot)

Among many Palestinians, the fugitives have been widely regarded as “heroes” who succeeded in freeing themselves from multiple life sentences. The jailbreak was followed by heightened tensions in the West Bank, a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, several attempted attacks, and sporadic rocket fire from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel.

Similar images circulated last weekend of the first four escapees to be recaptured by Israeli security forces: Zakaria Zubeidi, Yaqoub Qadiri, Mohammad al-Arida and Mahmoud al-Arida. The doctored photos disseminated of the fugitives after their capture turned their true-life grim and tired expressions into defiant grins to the cameras.

Zakaria Zubeidi seen after being recaptured in northern Israel on September 11, 2021 (left) and in a doctored photo in which he is made to appear smiling.

Mind you, who's to say which is doctored. Perhaps it's the other way round, and those cunning Zionists turned the defiant expressions of our brave Palestinian heroes into images of defeat and despair….