The Prince of the Shadows - Imminent Freedom (3/3):


One day, while searching for an apartment with a fake ID, he was noticed by zionist agent who owned a real estate office. The agent didn't recognize him by name, but by his facial features and a camera in the office. At the next apartment showing, a trap was set up to abduct Abdullah.

On this morning 21 years ago, March 5th 2003, he planned to take his daughter Tala to the doctor for treatment before his apartment appointment. Since all his friends were wanted by the occupation and his wife was sick, he had to go by himself to treat her. The doctor was late, so he was forced to take Tala with him to the appointment.

As soon as he arrived at the parking lot with his daughter Tala in his arms, two police dogs attacked him, so he threw his daughter into the car and locked it, trying to fend them off. One of them started biting his leg and the other his winter jacket. He was able to get rid of the dogs, but when he looked up, a group of occupation soldiers surrounded him, pointing their machine guns at him, threw him to the ground, handcuffed him, and took him to a car nearby.

His interrogation alone lasted 5 entire months with intense torture. In November, his sentence was announced: 67 life sentences plus 5,200 years, the longest sentence in history.

He wrote of his torture:
"Handcuffed and shackled, suspended...from the ceiling of the cell at the elbow,
Dawn of bullets without a rising sun... without hope, and eyes that weep.
Occupation imposes, and inverts logic... a question and interrogation, then an inquiry.
My body aches and their whips are like fire... bones break and bones are crushed.
My sea is stormy and my thoughts drown... my heart aches, and I feel suffocated.
I was captured and tortured, yet the pawn did not fall... my soul ascended in agony to the Creator.
No, my soul did not ascend to the heavens... I did not become a martyr, and still, I stare at the interrogator."

In 2015, he was interviewed with a smuggled phone. He urged Hamas not to rush on a prisoner exchange deal then. "We are patient," he said, "and will continue to be so even if we'd be released in a thousand years. The prisoners are ready to be patient. Steadfast. Steadfast." He was punished with solitary confinement, which he protested with a hunger strike.

From prison, he resists with the pen, having written 12 books, including a novel, the Prince of Shadows, about his life. It begins with a letter to his daughter Tala, who witnessed the moment of his arrest. He asks, "Who are you? and why are you?"

In just three years, Abdullah changed the face of the resistance. He strengthened it with his outside knowledge and enhanced it with his teachings, which continue to bear fruit today. Abdullah created not only bombs, but minds—training, developing, and evolving.

Perhaps it will be 1,000 years until Abdullah sees freedom. Or, perhaps, the legacy of Abdullah Ghaleb Al-Barghouti, marked by his profound impact on the resistance, will ignite the flame of liberation, bringing his freedom sooner than the world anticipates. All the while, Abdullah remains in his cell, waiting, steadfast, and principled.

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🔻Maryam a young Palestinian girl explains how reading the Quran daily became her source of comfort during the genocide.

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🔻Jamal Al-Budadah...a scientist who left NASA to develop missiles and missiles for the resistance in Gaza

A Palestinian mechanical engineer and commander in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). He left work at NASA and returned to the Gaza Strip, where he was born. He is considered one of the developers of the military capabilities of the Palestinian resistance. The Israeli security service described him as a major force in the production of resistance missiles, and assassinated him in 2021.

The sixty-year-old university lecturer, graduate of American universities, was not known to be associated with military work, even among his family members and those close to him, so his martyrdom, along with his eldest son Osama and a number of Qassam Brigades commanders, most notably the commander of the Gaza Brigade, Bassem Issa, was a “surprise” for many.


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She - the wife of the martyr Jamal Al-Badda - says that he came to her one day to tell her the path he was taking with the resistance, and he left her the choice, so she chose without hesitation to support him and support him, and to accompany him on “the journey of jihad and resistance.”

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🔺The CEO, Annie Chabel, who enacted these layoffs has been in the role just shy of 1 year, and does not have a background in journalism.

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🔻An officer died as a result of an injury he sustained in the Gaza battles.

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🔻From the Al-Qassam Brigades archive

Celebrations of the liberation of Gaza in 2005, the dismantling of settlements, and the withdrawal of the Israeli army


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🔺Last night, before today’s California Senate primary, constituents of Rep. Adam Schiff confronted him about his support for Israel’s massacre in Gaza. They were thrown out immediately.

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🔻Magen David Adom spokesperson: At 02:24, MDA received a report of a motorcycle rider injured in a collision on Professor Moshe Shorr Street in Holon. MDA paramedics provide medical treatment, transferring the 30-year-old man in critical condition with extensive injuries to Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.

Maybe it’s safe to assume it's a soldier who just returned from Gaza 😁

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