Two Palestinian militants who were among six who broke out of a maximum security Israeli jail this week were caught on Friday on a biblical hilltop in Israel's northern city of Nazareth, police said, drawing rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, APA reports quoting Reuters.
The other four escapees were still at large amid a massive manhunt by Israeli forces across northern Israel, where the Arab city of Nazareth sits.
The six escapees - five of whom are members of the Islamic Jihad militant group and one with the mainstream Fatah party - broke free early on Monday by tunnelling through a hole adjacent to their cell's toilet.
The two men captured on Mount Precipice were Islamic Jihad members, police said. Officers were tipped off by Nazareth residents who the two men had asked for food, Israeli media reported.
Video on social media showed Israeli officers putting two men into the back of separate police vehicles. The two men did not resist arrest, a police spokeswoman said.
Hours after the two men's capture, militants in the Gaza Strip - who fought a deadly conflict with Israel in May - launched a rocket towards Israel which was intercepted by its Iron Dome missile defence system, the Israeli military said. There were no reports of damage or casualties.
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