The Palestinian prisoners’ movement issued a statement in honour of Yahya Sinwar, the martyred leader of the Palestinian movement and liberated prisoner, on 18 October 2023. We are republishing the statement below.
The Prisoners’ Institutions and the National Prisoner Movement in Occupation Prisons Mourn the National Leader Martyr Yahya Sinwar
The Prisoners’ Institutions, the National Prisoner Movement in Occupation Prisons, and the freed prisoners at home and abroad mourn to our great people the martyr and national leader Yahya Al-Sinwar (chair of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas), who ascended as a martyr after a life full of struggle and giving until the last moment of his life.
In a statement, the institutions said, “Today, we mourn, on behalf of the prisoner movement in the ‘israeli’ occupation prisons, our companion in imprisonment and leader who dedicated his life to the freedom of his land and people. He is the prisoner, the freed, the martyr, and the martyr whose body remains held, alongside hundreds of martyrs in the cemeteries of numbers and the occupation’s refrigerators.”
The Prisoners’ Institutions pointed out that Al-Sinwar spent more than 23 years of his life in the occupation’s prisons, with his first arrest in 1982, followed by his arrest in 1985, and then again in 1988. He was sentenced to four life terms by the occupation and remained imprisoned until his release in the Loyalty of the Free (Wafa’ al-Ahrar) exchange deal in 2011. Today marks the 13th anniversary of the Loyalty of the Free deal, in which the martyr Al-Sinwar was among those released.
The Prisoners’ Institutions emphasized that the martyrdom of Yahya Sinwar will not deter our people from continuing the path of struggle for their freedom, the freedom of their land, and their right to self-determination.
The institutions also called on our people, wherever they are, to rise in support of the blood of the martyrs and the suffering of the prisoners in occupation prisons, who are facing systematic and unprecedented levels of killing and torture since the start of the ongoing war of genocide.
Glory to the martyrs of Palestine and freedom to the prisoners
18/10/2024