🇱🇧 Khiam Prison Liberation - the 24th anniversary (Media 2/2)
From Past Victories to Future Freedoms: South Lebanon and Palestine.
Today marks the 24th anniversary of the liberation of 144 prisoners from the colonial Khiam prison camp and torture center just days before the zionist occupation was driven out of southern Lebanon.
The prison was run by colonists and their allies since its inception. In the 1930s, it held rebels against the French occupation, and in 1985, invading zionists and the SLA turned it into a brutal torture facility.
In October 1991, 210 detainees were known to be held in Khiam, of whom 20 were non-Lebanese. This group included 13 Palestinians, four Syrians, two Kurds, and one Algerian. Among the detainees, there were 16 women (15 Lebanese and one Palestinian). Reports indicate that detainees ranged from minors to individuals in their sixties and older.
One of the youngest detainees, Rabah Shahrur, was around 12 years old when he was captured, held in Khiam for eight months to pressure his detained older brother into confessing. Another child, Ahmad Nimr Munther from Markaba, was 14 when he was taken prisoner in 1989. It was common to torture the relatives of the prisoners, their parents, and loved ones to force them to "confess" that they were resisting occupation.
Over the years, over 5,000 people, including 500 women like revolutionary Lebanese resister Suha Bechara (media 4, part 1), would be imprisoned and tortured at Khiam by electrocution, beating, waterboarding, and other brutal methods.
11 martyrs (media 2, part 2) ascended inside the prison due to torture, medical negligence, or suffocation by gas. The Khiam prison remained a testament to the struggle of a people until the 2006 war. The IOF, in an attempt to erase their crimes, bombarded the torture center, reducing it to ruins (media 3,4 part 2). Despite all their attempts, the electrical pole where they tortured the prisoners and two of them were martyred, as well as a cell used for torture, remained (media 5,6,7 part 2). The memories of the freed resisters, children of the land, remained. The voice of Rani Bazzi, who screamed on May 23, 2000, when he was liberated and continued to resist until he was martyred in 2006, in the same war where the enemy attempted to erase his past, still lingers on top of the rubble (media 8, part 2). We bear witness.
Every victory that is not documented may be lost. The scenes of liberation at Khiam prison not only document the victory but also make us feel as if we are living it, moment by moment, breaking into the torture prison where the occupiers fled, to free our prisoners (media 1, part 2). It makes us long for this moment in Palestine.
Last year, RNN wrote: "Khiam reminds us that #FreeThemAll is not a lofty dream or an empty promise to be replaced with compromise. The freedom of all prisoners—from the colonial prisons of the zionist entity, the dungeons of the comprador Authority, and the prisons of Europe, America, and the Arab world—is a reality that will be enforced through armed resistance and popular revolt."
On October 7th, the resistance enforced that reality through armed resistance, backed by the popular cradle, with their first demand being our prisoners, reiterating: "If the prisoner is lost, the nation is lost." 210 prisoners have been freed in the November exchange batches. We await the moment where all of our prisoners shall be free.
Khiam teaches us that the liberation of our prisoners is inevitable. It is a promise, because our people and their resistance pledged to keep it. As the liberation of the prisoners in southern Lebanon on the 23rd of May 2000 announced the liberation of the land two days later, today we affirm that the freedom of our prisoners has begun, announcing: the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, has begun.
Today marks the 24th anniversary of the liberation of 144 prisoners from the colonial Khiam prison camp and torture center just days before the zionist occupation was driven out of southern Lebanon.
The prison was run by colonists and their allies since its inception. In the 1930s, it held rebels against the French occupation, and in 1985, invading zionists and the SLA turned it into a brutal torture facility.
In October 1991, 210 detainees were known to be held in Khiam, of whom 20 were non-Lebanese. This group included 13 Palestinians, four Syrians, two Kurds, and one Algerian. Among the detainees, there were 16 women (15 Lebanese and one Palestinian). Reports indicate that detainees ranged from minors to individuals in their sixties and older.
One of the youngest detainees, Rabah Shahrur, was around 12 years old when he was captured, held in Khiam for eight months to pressure his detained older brother into confessing. Another child, Ahmad Nimr Munther from Markaba, was 14 when he was taken prisoner in 1989. It was common to torture the relatives of the prisoners, their parents, and loved ones to force them to "confess" that they were resisting occupation.
Over the years, over 5,000 people, including 500 women like revolutionary Lebanese resister Suha Bechara (media 4, part 1), would be imprisoned and tortured at Khiam by electrocution, beating, waterboarding, and other brutal methods.
11 martyrs (media 2, part 2) ascended inside the prison due to torture, medical negligence, or suffocation by gas. The Khiam prison remained a testament to the struggle of a people until the 2006 war. The IOF, in an attempt to erase their crimes, bombarded the torture center, reducing it to ruins (media 3,4 part 2). Despite all their attempts, the electrical pole where they tortured the prisoners and two of them were martyred, as well as a cell used for torture, remained (media 5,6,7 part 2). The memories of the freed resisters, children of the land, remained. The voice of Rani Bazzi, who screamed on May 23, 2000, when he was liberated and continued to resist until he was martyred in 2006, in the same war where the enemy attempted to erase his past, still lingers on top of the rubble (media 8, part 2). We bear witness.
Every victory that is not documented may be lost. The scenes of liberation at Khiam prison not only document the victory but also make us feel as if we are living it, moment by moment, breaking into the torture prison where the occupiers fled, to free our prisoners (media 1, part 2). It makes us long for this moment in Palestine.
Last year, RNN wrote: "Khiam reminds us that #FreeThemAll is not a lofty dream or an empty promise to be replaced with compromise. The freedom of all prisoners—from the colonial prisons of the zionist entity, the dungeons of the comprador Authority, and the prisons of Europe, America, and the Arab world—is a reality that will be enforced through armed resistance and popular revolt."
On October 7th, the resistance enforced that reality through armed resistance, backed by the popular cradle, with their first demand being our prisoners, reiterating: "If the prisoner is lost, the nation is lost." 210 prisoners have been freed in the November exchange batches. We await the moment where all of our prisoners shall be free.
Khiam teaches us that the liberation of our prisoners is inevitable. It is a promise, because our people and their resistance pledged to keep it. As the liberation of the prisoners in southern Lebanon on the 23rd of May 2000 announced the liberation of the land two days later, today we affirm that the freedom of our prisoners has begun, announcing: the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea, has begun.
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🗓 Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the liberation of 144 Lebanese prisoners from the colonial Khiam prison camp and torture center just days before the zionist occupation was driven out of southern Lebanon.
The prison was run by colonists and their allies…
The prison was run by colonists and their allies…
🚨 For the eighth time in a row, the zionist prison administration renewed the administrative detention without charge or trial for the heroic wounded prisoner Wissam Abu Zeid for an additional four months.
Wissam has been imprisoned without charge or trial for nearly 3 years, since he was shot in an assassination attempt alongside his comrade-in-arms, martyr Jamil Al-Amouri, the founder of the Jenin Brigade, on June 10th, 2021. Jamil and Wissam emerged from their car and engaged in an armed clash until the final bullet, supported by the resistant PA Security Forces officers Tayseer Issa and Adham Aliwi who were also martyred on that day.
The zionist entity has promised Wissam release numerous times, only to renew his indefinite sentence.
Wissam has been imprisoned without charge or trial for nearly 3 years, since he was shot in an assassination attempt alongside his comrade-in-arms, martyr Jamil Al-Amouri, the founder of the Jenin Brigade, on June 10th, 2021. Jamil and Wissam emerged from their car and engaged in an armed clash until the final bullet, supported by the resistant PA Security Forces officers Tayseer Issa and Adham Aliwi who were also martyred on that day.
The zionist entity has promised Wissam release numerous times, only to renew his indefinite sentence.
🚨 The Patriot air defense system was activated over the skies of occupied Safad, deep in northern occupied Palestine, to confront an unknown target.
🚨 Several fires broke out in occupied Safad following the sounds of explosions and an attempted interception of what is likely to be a cruise missile.
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Documentation of the cruise missile coming from the east that the "Iron Dome" and Patriot system attempted to intercept over the sky of Safad in northern occupied Palestine moments ago.
🚨🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq:
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
"Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the hearts of a believing people."
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, at dawn today Friday 24-5-2024, targeted the Port of Haifa in our occupied lands using drones, affirming our continued striking of enemy strongholds as part of the second phase of operations to resist the occupation, in support of our people in Gaza, and in response to the zionist massacres against unarmed Palestinian civilians.
"And victory is only from Allah. Indeed, Allah is Mighty and Wise."
Islamic Resistance in Iraq
Friday 15 - Dhu Al-Qi'dah - 1445 AH
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
"Fight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the hearts of a believing people."
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, at dawn today Friday 24-5-2024, targeted the Port of Haifa in our occupied lands using drones, affirming our continued striking of enemy strongholds as part of the second phase of operations to resist the occupation, in support of our people in Gaza, and in response to the zionist massacres against unarmed Palestinian civilians.
"And victory is only from Allah. Indeed, Allah is Mighty and Wise."
Islamic Resistance in Iraq
Friday 15 - Dhu Al-Qi'dah - 1445 AH
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🚨🇮🇶 BREAKING - Secretary-General of the Sayyed Al-Shuhada Brigades in the Popular Mobilization Forces of Iraq:
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At a time when the criminal American occupation resumes its blatant targeting of our security forces and our sacred Mobilization in various regions…
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At a time when the criminal American occupation resumes its blatant targeting of our security forces and our sacred Mobilization in various regions…
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🇮🇶 Islamic Resistance in Iraq:
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Scenes of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq launching a drone towards the Port of Haifa in our occupied lands, dated 24/5/2024.
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The note at 0:08 reads: "O Fatima Al-Ma'sumah [the infallible], this operation is dedicated to serving the sacred shrines."
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Scenes of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq launching a drone towards the Port of Haifa in our occupied lands, dated 24/5/2024.
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Note:
The note at 0:08 reads: "O Fatima Al-Ma'sumah [the infallible], this operation is dedicated to serving the sacred shrines."
🟡 Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades - Youth of Revenge and Liberation - Balata Camp:
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This morning, our Brigades confronted the zionist occupation forces’ storming of Balata camp and targeted it with heavy barrages of blessed bullets in various axes of deployment of enemy soldiers and vehicles.
Our Brigades are on the lookout...
It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades
Youth of Revenge and Liberation - Balata Camp
May 24, 2024
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This morning, our Brigades confronted the zionist occupation forces’ storming of Balata camp and targeted it with heavy barrages of blessed bullets in various axes of deployment of enemy soldiers and vehicles.
Our Brigades are on the lookout...
It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades
Youth of Revenge and Liberation - Balata Camp
May 24, 2024