Palestinian prisoner escapes from Israeli hospital

A Palestinian prisoner reportedly escaped from an Israeli hospital on Sunday, Hebrew news sites reported.

Samer Odeh, 32, was reportedly taken to the HaEmek medical center in the northern Israeli town of Afula for a checkup on Sunday morning and managed to escape the premises.

Israeli police forces and helicopters were searching the area for the fugitive. As of Sunday night, there were no indications that Odeh had been found.

Odeh still at large

 According to a statement by the police, Samer Odeh, a 32-year-old resident from the village of Tammun in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, was still missing as of Monday morning.

According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, 7,000 Palestinians were detained by Israel as of October.