Prisoners' freedom is the priority

Yesterday marked the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, which was adopted by the Palestine Liberation Organization, in fulfillment of the Palestinian and Arab prisoner who sacrificed his freedom on the altar of the Palestinian cause, with the aim of leaving colonialism from the land of his people and achieving complete freedom and independence, which our people have been struggling to reach for more than a century tirelessly. For its sake, hundreds of thousands of martyrs and prisoners were sacrificed, and it continues to make huge sacrifices in the face of a racist and uprooting occupation, but in the end, victory is the ally of the struggling peoples, and our people are no less struggling than the rest of the peoples who were able to liberate and become independent so that the occupation remains the last occupation in the world, due to the fact that Western countries The same colonial past, as well as the United States, adopts and supports this brutal occupation, but its fate is to disappear, like the rest of the colonial countries that emerged humiliated from the countries that colonized them and exploited their wealth above and below the ground.

In this sense, the prisoners are the vanguard of our people in the struggle. Indeed, many of them are the foundations of this struggle, which rehabilitated the Palestinian cause and transformed it from an issue of refugees aided by the United Nations, represented by the UNRWA, into a militant and political issue, along with the martyrs who are more generous than all of us. They offered their pure blood for the sake of the homeland and the liberation of the land and the human being together from the brutal Zionist occupation.

And because the prisoners are the advanced vanguard of struggle among our people, the occupation has worked and is still working to tighten the screws on them through its practices against them, where their living conditions are very difficult. As a result of medical negligence, which contradicts international laws and norms and is considered a violation of international agreements, but the world, with the support of America and its Western allies, is preventing the occupation state from being punished for these crimes that it commits against prisoners of freedom in particular and our people in general.

Nevertheless, the captive movement is lofty and failed, and all the measures and attempts of the occupation undermine its steadfastness and emptied it of its content and content of struggle. body.

Since the beginning of this year and with the advent of Netanyahu's extreme right-wing government, this government, through the so-called Minister of National Security, tried to harm the prisoners by clamping down on them, but it retracted its decisions and procedures due to the unity of the captive movement in the face of these measures and its unified struggle steps that forced the occupation to Retreat and defeat him.

However, the captive movement is still targeted by the occupation, which calls on everyone to expand the circle of solidarity with them and not to leave them alone to struggle with the prison administration headed by the extremist racist Minister Ben Gfir, as well as to continue bringing their cases before international courts, especially the Hague court specialized in crimes. the war.

The responsible Palestinian authorities and organizations concerned with the affairs of the captive movement must work to release them, especially the sick among them, led by the fighter Walid Daqqa, who has been detained for more than 36 years.

The question that arises is, how long will the prisoners of freedom remain in the prisons of oppression and occupation abuse?
The freedom of the prisoners should be the first priority for Palestinians and Arabs.