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Sun 16 Apr 2023 3:33 pm - Jerusalem Time

Institutions: Our people are united behind the prisoners

The institutions of the prisoners and the national and Islamic forces announced that the central activity to commemorate the prisoner’s day will be at seven o’clock in the evening, with the lighting of the flame of freedom in honor of the prisoner Walid Daqqa , and all the sick prisoners to demand their freedom, and the liberation of the bodies of the martyrs held in the refrigerators of the occupation, including the martyred prisoners, in front of the central square Our cultural country in Al-Bireh.


A member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the coordinator of the national forces and factions, Wasel Abu Youssef, said, during a press conference held today, Sunday, at the headquarters of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs in Al-Bireh, that our people are united behind the prisoners, who include the sick, the incoming prisoners, the administrators, the children, and the strikers. About food, and the sick, especially the cancer-stricken prisoner Walid Daqqa, who is subjected to medical neglect.


He added that our people commemorate the Prisoner's Day, stressing the circumvention around the issue of prisoners, and the revival of the activities of the Prisoner's Day in front of the headquarters of international organizations, calling for concerted efforts to activate the file in front of the whole world, until the prisoners are released.


Abu Yousef indicated that the occupation is holding the bodies of 12 prisoners who were martyred inside the occupation's cells, stressing that the leadership of the PLO emphasizes the advancement of the prisoners and everything related to them.


In turn, the head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, said that the beginning of this year was the worst phase the captive movement went through, under the new extremist Israeli government, but the prisoners were able to grab their rights and win.


He noted that the number of prisoners in the occupation prisons reached 4,900, including 1,000 administrative prisoners.

For his part, the head of the Prisoners' Club, Qaddoura Fares, said that the Prisoner's Day symbolizes the struggle of our Palestinian people, and our people salute this day in light of the increasing suffering of the prisoners.


And he indicated that racism is inherent in Israel, in all its governments, so the national forces are required to unite to support the prisoners and take practical steps.


For his part, the head of the Supreme Commission for the Follow-up of Families' Affairs, Amin Shoman, said, "We are witnessing the most extremist government in the history of the occupation, and this was evident in the measures taken against the prisoners."


He stressed that the issue of prisoners is one of the constants of national politics, and the illegal measures taken by the occupation and the piracy of the funds of martyrs and prisoners must be fought.


Shoman called for unity to participate in the revival of the activities of the Prisoner's Day in Palestine and the diaspora, and in all places where our people are.


The director of the Hurriyat Center, Helmi Al-Araj, and the head of the Supreme Authority for the Follow-up of Family Affairs, Amin Shoman Helmy Al-Araj, said that the prisoners, with their youth, are for the Palestinian cause, and have won all their heroic battles, and preserved their presence, and all our people must unite behind them and support them in all their measures.


He stressed that the battle of the prisoners did not stop, as it continues to liberate them, and the slogan of our unified people must be freedom for the prisoners, and that we fight for their freedom because they fought for us, as some of them have exceeded their four-decade sentence, except for the patients who are subjected to the policy of slow execution.


Al-Araj called for action by all means to protect the prisoners and liberate them, and to confirm our narrative that our prisoners of war are prisoners of war, and to confront the racist laws that are voted on in the Knesset against the prisoners.


The events tomorrow in the West Bank governorates will be as follows:

- Ramallah: 12:00 noon - at Al-Manara Square

- Bethlehem: 8:30 pm - in Bab Al-Zaqaq / downtown Bethlehem

- Hebron: 12:30 noon - in the center of Ibn Rushd Circle

- Jenin: 11:00 am - in Martyr Yasser Arafat Square / in front of Jenin Governorate

- Nablus: 8:00 pm - in front of Martyrs Square

- Tubas: 8:30 pm - in front of the Martyrs' Circle

- Jericho: 11:00 am - in front of the Red Cross office / Jericho

- Qalqilya: 12:30 noon - in front of Martyr Abu Ali Iyad Square

- Tulkarm: 8:30 pm - in front of Gamal Abdel Nasser Square / downtown Tulkarm

- Salfit: 10:30 a.m. - Bidya Higher School for Boys.

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