On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day ... Our hearts are with you day by day

Statistics available about this great and delicate title say that five percent of the Palestinian people entered the prisons of the occupation since 1967, and that more than fifty thousand children consecutively entered the Zionist jails and hundreds of women went through the same experience.

However, when monitoring the types of detention used by the Zionist occupation authorities through unfair laws or the laws of the British colonialism, which they named as a Mandate, we find that the administrative detention is the worst case experienced by the Palestinian detainee in terms of being detained without specific charge and staying in prison for many years without being tried. 

Taking security and confidentiality that is contrary to the most basic human rights and human dignity as a pretext is the cover under which the occupation authorities practices all forms of racism and ethnic persecution against the Palestinians in their homeland. 

The torture and terrorism practiced by the Zionist occupation state within prisons is unparalleled in the world, where the majority of those who had been arrested have faced methodological acts of torture as well as the brutal terrorist threat, which is represented in arresting the family of the detainee such as the father, mother, or siblings so that to make the detainee confess. 

Thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails (that are more than thirty jails other than the detention camps of the Israeli Defense Forces IDF) remained in prison after they finished their sentences under the pretext of becoming dangerous to the public security within the entity, and similar ones were re-arrested after being released under the pretext of disobeying with their obligations before leaving the prison. 

The procedures adopted by the Zionist occupier in the face of the activists in prisons are designed to break their will at the first place, for these authorities know and realized with certainty that the activists’ prison experience hardens their promises and elevates their ability and aptitude to resist the occupation and the presence of the Jewish state essentially. They also know that if they release them before breaking their pride and determination to liberate their country, this would mean that they will act as bombs of right and masculinity that would explode in their faces to eliminate from the region a grim era of injustice and oppression represented by the existence of the Zionist entity, this presence, which represents the most brutal odd historical mistake in human history, both the ancient and modern ones. 

Hence, freedom is the most valuable asset owned by man once he come to this world and it is equivalent to life itself, and therefore freedom has always been the largest value and the ultimate goal of humanity for which the oppressed people and slaves fought so that to achieve it. We can also say that it is the value that illuminates all other values and makes them possible and having a meaning i.e. that our detainee brothers and sons in the prisons of the occupation deserve our love and loyalty, and deserve more than that; they deserve sacrifice and seeking seriously to free them. There is no doubt that the experience of the Palestinian revolution and the PLO factions is filled with spotless and glorious examples in this regard. 

We are very proud of those people who have sacrificed their lives so that to release the prisoners in the Israeli jails, and proud of their names that are gleaming like stars in the sky of Palestine and of their families as well. We would like to shake hands with them and to tell them that you are in the depths of our hearts and that we will not forget your sons over days. 

Thousands of detainees have been released from the Israeli jails, in spite of the enemy, through successful and honorable exchange deals, but the question that rises in mind as we recall the Oslo, the Nakba, and the assassination of our great people, on the sixteenth of April- the anniversary of the dirty crime in Tunisia by assassinating the great martyr Abu Jihad Khalil al-Wazir- at the time when the U.S. administration is now pressing and threatening to go back to negotiations and to recognize the racial entity as a Jewish state, is: Why “Israel” did not release the Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture? Of course, the question here does not mean never accepting what both America and the Zionist enemy want, but comes in the context of detecting the important and significant national dimension of the title of the prisoners, which must be an absolute priority in any action or activity that is to take place in the region aiming at strengthening the Palestinian right, including heading to the United Nations and international institutions- including human rights commissions and international courts- that deal with issues relating to detention and occupation. 

Our enemy does not know but only the language of coercion and force and will not release the prisoners, especially those who suffered from humiliation and bitterness and represented significant militant symbols, but through one way; through exchange only. I think that this is already understood even by the children of Palestine and by the Arab nation that is experiencing a serious, severe, and very sensitive stage. Arresting Israeli soldiers or kidnapping them anywhere in Palestine and abroad should act as a concern haunting all the leaders of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian military and security organs and forces, and perhaps this should be done integrating with the diplomatic, legal, and advocating activity, what will ultimately lead to free our dear strugglers. We on this glorious day address an appeal of love, patience and gratitude to them for what they have done in favor of their country, and we tell them with all confidence and loyalty: Our hearts are with you day by day, and the dawn of your liberation is coming ... coming.