Bethlehem - Najib Farraj - The death of the prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid on the twentieth of the last month of the year 2022 was a great shock to the masses of the Palestinian people, who suffered from willful medical neglect after suffering from cancer for at least two years, and he is the one who spent twenty years completely and completely Inside the prison during his last arrest, and before that he was arrested at intervals for another ten years, and instead of releasing him to receive treatment abroad, the occupation forces tightened their grip on the prisoner who is called “the masked lion.” After his martyrdom, the occupation authorities refused to release his body and kept him detained . This increased the pain of all citizens, and before that, the two wounded prisoners, Daoud Al-Zubaidi, from Jenin, were martyred after he was injured in a clash with the occupation forces last August. He sustained burns after carrying out a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley last September, and their bodies are still being held, bringing the number of martyred prisoners whose bodies are being held to 11.

Escalation of repressive practices

In this regard, the prisoner Muhannad Al-Azza, who has been detained in the occupation prisons for 12 years, said in a telephone conversation with Al-Quds.com, "The year 2022, as all previous years, was a heavy year for the prisoners and the Palestinian people in general, due to the intensification of the military grip and the escalation of repressive practices." The right of the prisoners, including the continuation of the war of wholesale arrests every night against Palestinian citizens, the continuation of storming the prisoners’ rooms, harassing them, putting their leaders and cadres in solitary confinement, restricting visits to their families on security grounds and issuing collective punishments against them, as well as the policy of mass execution of dozens of martyrs despite the possibility arrest them.”

He added, "Most importantly of all, is the threat of a policy of execution against prisoners accused of carrying out military operations, which led to the killing of Israelis, with the formation of a government that is the most fascist in Israel, as the extremist Ben Gvir, who became Minister of National Security in the new government, demands, as he seeks to issue a law With this trend in the Israeli Knesset, in which the parties that make up the government constitute the majority, and therefore we are facing a big talk to thwart the attack on the prisoners, and that the attempt to approve the death penalty will not be the only way to attack the prisoners and fight them in a much larger way, and therefore the captive movement and the masses of our people in general are facing a great challenge In the new year to thwart this fascist attack.

auspicious events

Al-Azza went on, who has only one year left of his sentence, and yet there are important joyful events that we await precisely at the beginning of this year, the most important of which is the release of the prisoner Karim Younes from the village of Ara within the 48 areas, which is scheduled for the sixth of January next after spending 40 years. inside the captivity, and after that the prisoner Maher Younis will be released from the same village after he finishes his 40-year sentence as well.”

The date of the release of the sheikh of the prisoners

In the month of February, the prisoner Fouad Al-Shobaki, who is called the Sheikh of the prisoners, and the eldest of them, will have a date with freedom after an arrest that lasted 17 years. That you will be victorious sooner or later, and from the middle of the night and its dark darkness the dawn will break out, and sure hopes will emerge from its midst that we will cross the dark tunnel with the departure of the occupation, and the achievement of our legitimate goals of return, the state and self-determination.

Ambitions are great

He said: "Our ambition will not be at these limits, and we have great hope that other great wishes will be fulfilled in the new year, foremost of which is the completion of an honorable exchange deal, and this is the dream that does not leave the hearts and minds of the prisoners and their families over the past years, even if this deal is implemented." It will be a great achievement in this direction to break the chains and defeat the jailer and his goals that seek to kill the dream and break the will, and this will not happen over the past decades and will never happen.”