The memory of the first martyrs of the captive movement, the martyr Abdul Qadir Abu al-Fahm

In the year 1969, the occupation government established Ashkelon prison to be a place where the prisoners of the Palestinian resistance are disciplined - as they put it - and for that purpose it pursued a policy of repression, terror, beating with batons, and forcing the prisoners to extremely humiliating procedures, which made their lives in prison harsh and bitter.

On May 5, 1970, the revolutionary human will exploded in this prison to announce the prisoners' uprising against the decisions of the occupation government and its prison administration, rejecting the policies of abuse and torture against them.
This uprising was led by the first pioneers of the captive national movement, the martyr captive Abd al-Qadir Abu al-Fahm, the martyr liberated captive Abu Ali Shaheen, and the martyr captive Omar al-Qasim. .

Despite his poor health and being wounded by several bullets in one of his military operations, the imprisoned fighter Abd al-Qader Abu al-Fahm refused to excuse him from participating in the hunger strike, and insisted on participating despite his wounds, advancing the ranks with a solid will.

The prison administration, at the time, resorted to the most heinous methods of repression and abuse, with the aim of ending the prisoners' strike, and affecting the prisoners' determination and steadfastness, which was the strongest pillar in this battle.

On May 11, 1970, Abu al-Fahm’s health condition deteriorated, and the prison clinic conspired against him and prevented him from any kind of treatment. The hero, Abu al-Fahm, rose to martyrdom, opening, with his brave departure, the door to progress for the hunger of the prisoners who bore the covenant of blood and loyalty to the martyrs in their hearts as a beacon that lit the march of struggle, struggle, and resistance. For generations to come on the path of liberating the homeland.

The martyr Abdel Qader Abu al-Fahm was born in the village of Berber in Palestine in 1929. He immigrated with his family in 1948 due to the catastrophe and displacement, to reside as a refugee in the Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip. He married and had two children, Fathia and Hatem.

In 1953 he joined the Egyptian forces and obtained several military courses, and when the formation of the Palestine Liberation Army began, he was "Abu Hatem" the officer in charge of the Khan Younis Training Center, and he fought the wars of 1956 and 1967, where he was part of the Thunderbolt Battalion that fought fiercely, and in one of his battles in 1969 he was wounded He was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Israeli occupation authorities. The captive martyr, Abd al-Qadir Abu al-Fahm, is considered the first Palestinian prisoner to die during the open hunger strike in the occupation prisons.

This memory comes to remind us that the account with the occupation has not yet been closed, and that it increases every day with every martyr, prisoner, and wounded.

The suffering of the prisoners did not stop at just leaving them in prisons for long years, to the extent that there are more than (400) prisoners in the occupation prisons whose years of detention exceeded twenty years?! Since 1967, 236 prisoners have been martyred in these prisons, a number that can rise at any moment. Prisoners who are sick with chronic diseases are lethal if not treated properly, which of course is what happens in occupation prisons under the pretext of medical negligence. Their number has exceeded (600) prisoners, not to mention the chilling crime of holding the bodies of the martyred prisoners and continuing to imprison them in prison behind bars while they are lifeless corpses, their number has reached (13) until now, our fellow prisoners even after they passed away from us, and they remained in our hearts and minds They are still physically under chains, and they are the martyrs, the captive heroes:
1- Anis Dawla, whose body has been held since 1980
2- Aziz Owaisat, whose body has been held since 2018
3- Fares Baroud, whose body has been held since 2019
4- Nassar Taqatqa, his body has been withheld since 2019
5- Bassam Al-Sayeh, his body has been held since 2019
6- Saadi Al-Gharabli, his body has been withheld since 2020
7- Kamal Abu Waar, whose body has been held since 2020
8- Sami Al-Amour, his body has been withheld since 2021
9- Daoud Al-Zubaidi, his body has been held since 2022
10- Muhammad Maher Turkman, whose body has been held since 2022
11- Nasser Abu Hamid, whose body has been held since 2022
12- Wadih Abu Ramuz, his body has been held since January 2023
13- Khader Adnan, his body has been withheld since May 2023


Send to my jailers the story of my pride *** in letters of glory and peace is my beginning
Even peace if you start it with regret *** Peace is with our religion and with my face
Do not think that shackles were shackled *** Do not think that imprisonment is the weakest of my strength
The shackle is a chain that adorns my wrist *** And prison is a school that increases my fear
And if you think the whips humiliate me *** then the weakness is in you and my will is steadfast
Struggle, for the spirits are not shackled *** The soul is not shackled and my revolution
And if our blood flows with your whips *** The blood will prevent my humiliation

We do not remember the martyrs in order to honor them, for He honored them from His generosity that does not run out. The Most Generous, Glory be to Him in the Most High, named Him, and He made them rejoice in what they were given of bounty, and He is of great bounty. Rather, we remember them so that we do not forget that we are still under a brutal and merciless occupation, an occupation that was and still is the reason. Behind all our pains, torments, and wounds that do not heal, there is an occupation whose time has come for its departure from us. We reject it as resistance, martyrs, prisoners, and wounded, and the land rejects it, expels it, and expels it because it is a pure land in which the martyrs are purified. ?! Then what mask can today hide behind the ugliness of the occupation and the ugliness of its crimes and massacres, and its impurity?!

We remember the martyrs so that we do not forget that this world is a neglectful world that does not do justice to the oppressed, does not protect the victim, but rather stands insolently to support the oppressor against the oppressed and the perpetrator against the victim, and to utter ornate words in the corridors of the United Nations, choosing them from among thousands of words and meanings from the dictionary of diplomacy and false democracy. , to issue a shy statement calling on both sides, the murderer and the murdered, to work together to stop the escalation and violence between them, as if the victim’s resistance to her rapist is not a right guaranteed by morals and religions, before any man-made laws. But what morals with the occupation?! The occupation has no morals and the occupation has no religion, and the occupation comes at the highest level of terrorism and organized crime.
This is the occupation, terrorism, and nothing else. Anyone who chooses to be neutral or dissociate himself from resisting it and striving to remove it once and for all is definitely an accomplice to this occupation and one of the war criminals of his army and the army of those who are silent about the truth.

Today, we remember a martyr among the thousands of heroic martyrs of Palestine, a martyr who dreamed of freedom from his prison, so he rose to the heights in it before he gained his freedom.

Today, more than ever, we are required to stop considering martyrs as mere numbers, because behind every martyr, prisoner, and wounded, there is a story of pain and pain, not a family or a family, but an entire people who are subjected to killing, looting, and persecution every day.

Moreover, it is not enough to tell the story at the moment of martyrdom and then remain silent, as silence here is a crime. Therefore, here comes the importance of following the transformation and the catastrophe that befell his family and his family, just as the importance of remembering these martyrs, even if every year, comes to remind us of the catastrophe and heroism in Palestine.

Then it is not permissible for us to remember a particular martyr without another with every year and commemorate his memory and merits to the exclusion of others. How many martyrs of a leader rose with him, other martyrs who were with him, so he and the other martyrs are remembered and remain in oblivion and on the sidelines, alive and dead. This is a shame and disgrace, all our martyrs were great Or young, whether they were leaders or soldiers, they are one in our custom, and all of them shed their blood to irrigate the riches of this country.

The Palestinian narrative that we defend without being crowned by the martyrs and prisoners, is an incomplete narrative, subject to rebuttal and refutation, for these people and their blood and suffering are the true witness to the massacres of the occupation, and the inhumanity of the occupation.

Palestine loves all men *** Be one or live in the graves
Be good to yourselves, O bones *** It will be written about you for all eternity
And for glory he embraced without returning *** so nothing is left but the cowardly vanity
A generation competes for heaven, and the next generation builds palaces
So be patient and patient, a child will be born *** trampling with the soles of the tyrants of the ages