Neither the detention room remains nor the rust of the chains.”
We commemorate the 17th of April, celebrating the Palestinian Day of Loyalty, a day of reverence, pride, and belonging to those free pioneers of sacrifice and redemption, and heroes of the Palestinian resistance, our valiant prisoners in the dungeons of zionist occupation, in their cells of death, oppression, and torment, we celebrate Palestinian Prisoners’ Day chosen by our people and their free individuals for solidarity, loyalty, and commitment to their cause for the sake of our people’s causes and chapters of struggle and sacrifices.
The cause of our valiant prisoners, and its record filled with pain, suffering, and injustice, and a more intense record of giving, endurance, struggle, and steadfastness in the face of the fiercest campaigns of slow killing and genocide, since the arrest of the first Palestinian prisoner, the late martyr Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi, until today, a journey that extends through generations.
The fortresses of death and terror in the occupation prisons swelled with hundreds of thousands of our people’s free individuals, men, women, and children, under conditions of oppression, killing used in all methods of terror, restriction, torture, and targeting from direct and indirect killing, starvation, deprivation, punishment, and deliberate medical neglect, and attempts of draining and despair that have not lessened in intensity, and have continued around the clock for nearly 60 years, during which 150 martyrs shed their blood in interrogation cells, torture, and in the arenas of confrontation in prisons, and in battles of dignity and hunger strikes. It is a journey where pain and suffering were not the sole themes, but also resistance, steadfastness, organization, and building, extracting rights and achievements were another face of this long journey, as our prisoners turned fortresses of death into trenches of struggle and giving, building leaders and cadres, solidifying fighters and raising their awareness, and fueling our revolution and Palestinian intifada with leaders, heroes, men of thought, culture, and politics.
Since the 7th of October last year with the onset of the Flood, the occupation authorities have singled out the most horrific and heinous human crimes of brutal beating, humiliation, rape, killing, and deprivation of the most basic life necessities, and it continues where about 15 martyrs have ascended to date due to direct killing or deliberate medical negligence, the latest of whom and ten days ago was the dean of the prisoner movement and its beloved thinker, Comrade Leader Walid Abu Daqqah, with whose departure our people, our prisoners, and our resistance lost a unique leader and thinker, a revolution and a trench of giving in itself, in addition to the inhumane crimes that our people and free people in Gaza of Hashem are subjected to where dozens of cadres have been detained for decades.
A qualitative deal will be achieved in which the conditions of the resistance are met:
– Returning the prisoners to their places of residence and not displacing them.
– Release of prisoners from Al-Quds, Palestinians of ’48, and not exempting them.
– Release of the sick and elderly.
– Clear guarantees against their mistreatment and re-arrest.
– Although this deal is partial, it will open the door to the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners whom the resistance insists on not compromising on any of them, and what we also see is that the duration to achieve this matter will not be long, a truce will be followed by truces, and the deal by closely spaced deals, victory followed by victories and the option of resistance is the way to that.
Glory to the martyrs, victory to the resistance, and freedom for the prisoners.
And we will certainly be victorious.
17/4/2024