For 23 years, the Akl family has been missing on all occasions, especially the blessed month of Ramadan, its captive son, Muhammad Jamal Salim Akl, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment 17 times, so an atmosphere of sadness and pain prevails in her life and her home in the city of Jenin , but to break the cycle of suffering, and an expression of faith in God and her adherence to hope Khadija, the sixty-year-old mother, Khadija "Umm Alaa", is keen on his presence at every breakfast and suhoor table, so she sits in the place designated for him and next to her is his large picture, and before eating her breakfast, she kisses him and calls him, and shares with her family, especially his sick father, prayer and supplication to the Lord of the Worlds to honor him with a close relief.

And she says: "No matter how long his absence is, and how severe the pain of his separation is, and the injustice of the jailer and the occupation increases, Muhammad's spirit will come with us, and, God willing, soon, he will decorate our lives, our occasions, and the tables of the coming Ramadan with his freedom and his return to us."

Since the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan, the spirit and soul of the father, Jamal Akl, refuses to eat food like everyone else, but to preserve his life in light of his suffering from a chronic disease that affected his health and movement, until he began to use a tool to help move, and to continue standing for the pleasure of his liver, which he considers "everything". Life”, he is forced to take a little for the sake of medicine.

And his father says: "Whenever it is time to break the fast, my wife does not stop crying continuously, day and night due to the absence of Muhammad Nawara, the life, the spirit and the flower of the house.

He adds, "We live in the most difficult moments during the month of Ramadan. In many cases, we lose the ability to eat, our son, and all prisoners are deprived of everything, especially freedom."

And he continues: "How can our hearts and consciences accept eating and living comfortably when our heroes waste their lives in the occupation prisons that stole their lives? And every day that passes in Ramadan, our suffering worsens, and we have nothing but patience and supplication to the Lord of the Worlds."

Even the stories and stories of Ramadan that the father, Akl, tells his grandchildren who do not know their aunt and uncle, because of the unjust occupation policies. It inspires us with determination and hope. Since birth, he was distinguished by his big heart. He was affectionate and different from his generation. He is the second in our family of 11 members. He completed his studies until the eighth grade and left education to help me, due to illness, to support the family.

The captive's mother adds: "My husband has been suffering from a blood clot for 35 years and his health condition is difficult. He sacrificed his future to share the care of the family, which has always been targeted by the occupation, especially in the first intifada. His cousin Maher Omar Aqel, the most prominent leader of the Fatah movement, was assassinated by the occupation forces." In the prime of his youth after his liberation from the occupation prisons.

And she continues: "No one in the family was spared the arrest of his cousins, Maher's brother Aqel, and Muhammad Qassem Aqel, and other of our relatives. Even Alaa, the first of my sons, was arrested, and we have always experienced the bitterness of suffering at the prison gates, or because of the occupation's pursuit of them."

The mother, Umm Alaa, recounts, "After the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Muhammad was affected by the practices and crimes of the occupation, so he participated in the confrontations and marches, and with the escalation of Israeli repression and the successive fall of the martyrs, he became involved in the armed resistance in secret."

She adds, "We did not notice anything about him. He worked during the day with his father, and at night he sneaked in with his comrades to join them in resisting the occupation silently. He also participated in the battle of Jenin camp in April 2002."

And she continues: "After the massacre, we discovered that Muhammad was at the heart of the battle. He participated in confronting the occupation and escaped death and arrest. Many of his friends told us about his heroism and struggle."

Shortly after the battle of "April", the occupation raided the house of Muhammad's family, and began to pursue him, and the raids and ambushes were repeated, but he refused to surrender, especially when the campaign to pursue him intensified after the occupation accused him of involvement in several commando operations, and his mother says: "The pursuit continued until he was surrounded and arrested in A major special operation on the morning of 2/12/2002, and he spent a long period of time in the cellars of interrogation under torture in Al-Jalama prison, and the happiest moments of my life were when I saw him alive after his arrest, but the prison administration bothered us, and continued targeting him and punishing him with isolation, and during that he was sentenced to life imprisonment 17 Once".

Muhammad did not suffer from any health problems before his arrest, and his mother says: "His health began to deteriorate during and after the interrogation, and he suffered from an ulcer in his stomach and they refused to treat him. ".

And she adds: "He withstood heroism and challenge, and he and his fellow prisoners are still fighting the battle of freedom, and we all stand with them. Prisons and judgments do not frighten us. Our children are heroes and they chose the path of struggle for the freedom of their people, and they realize the result: martyrdom or imprisonment, so the Lord of the Worlds honored them by escaping from the methods of death that The occupation masters it and writes for them a new life, during which they prove that they are stronger than the occupation and its prisons.”

And she continues: "Muhammad rejoiced us by completing his education and graduating with a bachelor's degree, and I felt when I received it from him during a great festival, that the hour of great joy is near, and our message to him and the prisoners is congratulations and blessings in Ramadan, and continuous prayer until the bars are broken and we rejoice in their freedom in the next feast, so that the feast becomes two feasts."