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.

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

🇮🇶 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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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

🚨🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e:
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An important statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces will be issued this afternoon at the million-man demonstration in Al-Sabeen Square to announce military operations as part of the fourth phase of escalation.

In the northern Gaza Strip, US funded IOF warplanes and artillery have launched several attacks in Jabalia camp, Al-Falluja, near Abu Sharar, and the Hamada family home. Ambulance and civil defense crews have been targeted while recovering martyrs and the injured from the Hamada family home.

Additionally, the bodies of five martyrs and several wounded have been retrieved from the rubble of the Al-Hawajri family home in the Al-Fakhoura neighborhood, west of Jabalia camp.

✈️🚨 Sirens ring in Ghajar in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms, as well as "Dafna," "HaGoshrim," "Snir," "Kibutz Dan," and "Shear Yeshuv" in northeastern occupied Palestine, due to drone infiltration fears.

🚨 Director of Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital:
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The occupation is deliberately taking the Gaza Strip's hospitals out of service.

The Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah is on the verge of being out of service due to daily targeting.

Around 1.5 million people in Rafah rely on Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Hospital.