After 480 months... Karim Younes is on a date with freedom!

Written by: Walid Al-Hodali

How did the prisoner, Karim Younes, manage to climb these tall mountains? How did he manage its ruggedness and hard rocks? A lonely space of time that thousands of men can bear. Karim carried it alone. How many times did he enter the battle of an open-ended hunger strike? How many of his molars did the prostitution "dentist" remove, how many were left in his mouth, and how much was left under the responsibility of this so-called doctor? How many visits did his family reach the prison gate and then brought them back without his eyes darkening from seeing his loved ones? How many of a loved one received the news of his death, and how much of his grief was he who enabled his jailer to look gloomy? The last death was the death of his mother, who wished to have some time to spend near her, to smell her sweet scent and perfume his soul with her perfume. Now he will leave prison after less than thirty days, so that his first stop will be to visit his mother’s grave, and they will say to him, “This is your father’s grave, and this is the grave of your uncle, your uncle, and your neighbor.” . What a "recreation" that came after the prison separated him from his loved ones.
In less than a month from now, he will end forty years, he will carry his beautiful and bad memories, he will carry on his shoulders the burden of forty years of oppression and pain, he will wake up his first morning away from their braying and their ominous saying: number by number, no enemy will come to him who counts his breath in the morning, noon and evening. After a month from now, he will choose his food and drink, the movement of his feet, his sleep, his clothes, and his speech, and he will open his eyes wide to see the horizon as beautiful, radiant, and wide as it is, without being interrupted by their iron, their misfortune, and their hatred. He feels a pain when he thinks of those he left behind. They are there waiting for the chance to live again, to be resurrected out of these prisons.
How will Karim spend this month that separates him from life, between the burial ground of the living and life above the earth, between three darknesses and an insatiable light? It will be a heavy month, but it will pass as the four hundred and eighty months have passed, he will breathe freedom and enjoy what he was deprived of, he will be born again and he will think carefully about what is to come without ever leaving the depths of prison, half of him will remain outside prison and the other half will be with his brothers whom he left to their fate in prison. It is for him that joy or happiness be complete, as if in this world it is not complete, and its completion may be by demolishing prisons and liberating those in them, and this can only happen with the end of the occupation.
Karim's first problem is the occupation, and his remaining problem is also the occupation. Life will not return to its serenity, and as long as there is someone who controls the joints of our lives, and even all its details, Karim will see, after his return to his country in occupied Palestine in the year 48, the huge size of the urbanization that the occupation established, he will see the settlements that he left small and have become big cities, he will see the big streets And the huge markets, he will see the flourishing of falsehood and how much the obscenity of the occupation has grown after all these years have passed. Karim in his body is a very strong antidote to frustration, in his long “imprisonment” he studied history and studied the fate of the oppressors and learned with certainty that falsehood never lasts.