On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, We Support Demands for Liberation of All Palestinian Prisoners
On Palestinian Prisoner's Day, April 17, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) hails the steadfastness of Palestinian prisoners in the occupation prisons in the face of the Israeli killing machine, oppression, and torture. The MB views working to liberate Palestine as a national and religious duty, and that all prisoners in the occupation’s prisons are prisoners of freedom.
Therefore, in light of the escalating captivation of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip – where the number of prisoners has reached 9,500 people, and the systematic violations against prisoners have surpassed all limits regarding legal and human rights – the Brotherhood calls on peoples, countries, governments, and Arab and international organizations to adopt positive attitudes towards the Palestinian prisoners.
The Muslim Brotherhood calls on the Arab League, in particular, which approved Palestinian Prisoner's Day in 2008, to urge all Arab countries to celebrate Palestinian Prisoner's Day and officially show solidarity with the prisoners. The MB also urges the Arab League – as an organization – to prioritize the issue of prisoners and detainees and put it on top of its agenda, to pressurize the occupying entity to provide protection for the prisoners, stop legal violations against them, and work to liberate them.
The Brotherhood also hails the resistance heroes and urges them to liberate the prisoners and Al-Aqsa Mosque and calls on all countries and governments to support the Palestinian negotiator, in the course of working to unconditionally stop the fighting, liberation of all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons, and putting an end to all crimes and violations practiced against Palestinian people.
The MB also calls on the Arab and Islamic elites and the free people of the world – including politicians, members of parliament, authors, thinkers, decision-makers, and all those who may play an active role – to give the issue of prisoners in the occupation’s prisons its due attention and priority, and to broadly promote it and interact with it, in order to create a public opinion that would be supportive to the Palestinian cause in one of its most important axes, in fulfillment of the duty of support, and backing the prisoners’ rights, to boost their legal status as freedom fighters, until they achieve their freedom, and until Palestine –all Palestine– achieves its freedom and independence.
MB Official Spokesperson
Osama Suleiman
(Wednesday, 8 Shawwal 1445 AH / 17 April 2024 AD)