THE Fatah party branded revenge attacks on Palestinian prisoners a war crime today as Israeli occupation forces go on the offensive in response to six detainees escaping from a high-security jail earlier this week.

Fatah called for “an urgent popular uprising in all Palestinian cities, villages and camps,” promising to stand with the Palestinian people alongside the “heroic prisoners” after their daring jailbreak.

Israeli authorities started a brutal crackdown in the wake of the humiliating escape  from the maximum-security Gilbao prison, demanding their return “dead or alive.”