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Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:02 pm - Jerusalem Time
"Abu al-Samed" .. the flame of Qalandia camp that does not go out despite the many arrests and deputies
Jerusalem - "Al-Quds" dot com - Wasel Al-Khatib - "Abu Al-Samed", a respected name that people circulate in Qalandia camp specifically and in various areas of Jerusalem governorate in general, because this 51-year-old man is the father of two and four young men. Girls, he spent most of his years in the arenas of struggle and struggle in the ranks of the "Fatah" movement and its various institutions, while he was wounded dozens of times by the bullets of the occupation and miraculously escaped death, but a large number of his family members, "Imtair", died as martyrs, including his nephew, the martyr "Nahed Amtir". ", whose name came after the martyr "Nahed", a son of the same family, who died on 4/16/1994, at the gate of the camp in the midst of bloody confrontations with the occupation soldiers on the anniversary of the assassination of the great fighter Khalil al-Wazir "Abu Jihad".
This nickname belongs to "Raed Fayez Amtir," who lives in Qalandia camp, and was arrested about two weeks ago from his home in the early hours of the morning, along with his son, "Samed," and they were imprisoned in "Ofer" prison in Betunia without being charged yet, bearing in mind that the father was injured. He was severely wounded in the knee after being attacked by settlers in Jaffa during a recreational trip he was taking with his friends.
His brother, Fawaz Amtir, who leads the Palestinian Legions team, says that "Abu al-Samad" has not known a taste of comfort or personal or social stability since the Great Intifada in 1987, and until now, he was the one who was and still repeats the slogan "No voice is louder than the voice of Palestine and its capital, Jerusalem." This is normal for a refugee whose family roots were uprooted from their original village, Bir Ama’in, and they were thrown into the camps, exile, and diaspora.
"O Fayez", who is the man who crosses the mountains with heavy vehicles with the Palestinian legion team to get acquainted with the geography of the stolen country, added in an interview with "4" dot com, through the media office of the Popular National Congress of Jerusalem, that his brother was arrested by the occupation for about ten years. Among them are periods of administrative detention. He had experienced prisons at a young age, and now he is returning to them when he is in his early fifties with his eldest son, “Samad,” who is 21 years old, indicating that they do not know what are the reasons for his detention, which was extended for more than week during the past days in preparation for his trial or release.
Emtair continues, Raed is now in charge of the secretariat of the People's Committee for Services in Qalandia camp, as a result of recent elections in which he received the highest votes, knowing that he is considered one of the advanced organizational cadres of the leadership ranks and one of the voices calling for national unity and an end to the divisions and defections that serve only The common enemy of all of us is the occupation.
Hence the great love that “Abu al-Samad” enjoys, who, as the youth of the camp say about him, “breathes unity, freedom and pride,” noting that in one of his arrests he underwent a very harsh interrogation and did not confess to anyone, denying the major charges that were leveled against him, and he was released from prison. The prison was victorious, so it was carried on the shoulders and the national flags were raised, and the young men walked with it in the alleys, streets, and lanes, proud of this stature, which expressed the strength of the camp residents, their loyalty, their belonging to their cause, and their non-compliance with the constants.
The Amtair family, to which "Abu al-Samed" belongs, presented two martyrs: Muhammad and Muhannad Amtir, during the last month of last year, when they deliberately and premeditatedly ran over a settler near the Za'tara military checkpoint while they were returning from the city of Nablus, where they were with their brothers. The three are preparing for the wedding of one of the family's girls, their first-degree relative, so the joy turned to joy.
Fawaz Amtir hopes that his brother, Raed, and his son, Samed, who were preparing for his engagement party these days, will smell the fragrance of freedom and that they will not be charged or transferred to administrative detention, expressing his concern for the health of his brother, who is suffering from the effects of the surgery that was performed. He kneeled him after the settlers attacked him in Jaffa, denouncing the continuous targeting of him, which deprives him of stability with his nuclear family and his extended family, calling for activating the prisoners’ issue and removing it from the “seasonal” domain and keeping its flame burning until all the male and female prisoners are liberated from the occupation prisons, congratulating Mrs. At the same time, the two deans of the prisoners, Karim and Maher Yunus, were freed, hoping that all the detainees would soon embrace the country's sun.
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"Abu al-Samed" .. the flame of Qalandia camp that does not go out despite the many arrests and deputies