To the heroes of Operation “Freedom Tunnel

To the heroes of Operation “Freedom Tunnel”

Ihsan Ataya (Representative of the “Islamic Jihad Movement” in Lebanon)

Written by the General Coordinator of Palestine in the Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance

Free prisoners despite isolation: Mahmoud Abdullah Arida, Muhammad Qasim Arida, Yaqoub Mahmoud Qadri, Ayham Fouad Kammaji, Mujahid Yaqoub Infaat, Zakaria Muhammad Al-Zubaidi.

A salute of jihad and resistance, a salute of heroism and courage, a salute of pride and dignity, a salute of the promised freedom.

A year has passed since you succeeded in wresting your freedom, for a few days, from Gilboa detention center, which is considered the most fortified of the occupation prisons.

On the sixth of September 2021, your date was with the breezes of freedom, the fragrance of flowers, the chirping of birds, and with the sky and plains of Palestine, its orchards and mosques.

Your creative act on that date was not just a passing achievement, it was a heroic act that dates back to it, and it was written in letters of light on bright pages in the struggle record of Palestine.

Your message has reached the whole world, your story has become on every tongue, and it has turned into a role model.

You were able to present a curriculum that is taught in the school of jihad and resistance, for you have surpassed your enemy, and disrupted the effects of its security services, its military fortifications, and its police procedures.

The enemy will not forget this operation and what you did to it, and it will not be able to erase its effects no matter what it does to you.

Neither isolation, nor Psychological and physical torture, nor terrorism, nor all its repressive methods, can break your arms, break your resolve and will, affect your morale, discourage you from achieving your goals, or distort your compass through AlQuds and Palestine, the path of martyrs and resistance fighters.

The effect of your heroism is still echoing around the globe, and the planting you planted has quickly borne fruit. So here are the Jihad Brigades, in Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarm and Tubas.

They are confronting the occupation forces and its soldiers every day, and the battle of prisoners in the enemy’s prisons has not stopped, and the confrontations in the West Bank continue.

As for what was mentioned in the letters of Mahmoud and Muhammad Ardah, which were published by their family a few days ago, it confirms the level of awareness you have, O heroic leaders, and the extent of your steadfastness in your ongoing battle against your enemy, and your ability to endure the sufferings as a result of his barbarism and aggression.

Here is Commander Mahmoud Ardah, speaking in his message about the punitive measures imposed on the heroes of the “Freedom Tunnel”, and the harsh conditions of solitary confinement inside the enemy cells, saying: “We walk on hot coals without fear of burning, our hearts ache for the liberation of Palestine, we demand freedom and we will get it, inspite of the enemy’s nose.”

And here is the owner of the creative mind and insightful thought, Commander Muhammad Arida, speaking in his message about the lessons learned from the difficult isolation experience, after the “Freedom Tunnel” operation, saying:

“The facts are not realized until after hardships and experiences… How much I thought I knew about Israelis and Zionists, or even about people in general, but I realized things in this ordeal that I did not know before.

The experience of isolation is a difficult one, as you are in a continuous fusion with the jailer and his aides, a fusion of myself, my mind and my body without discrimination, if not for this experience.

This experience taught me many facts, in which I see hatred, methods of oppression, and deliberate, deliberate and planned neglect, in the face of truth and fiction.

Perhaps these words of mine are meaningless to some, but loneliness and emptiness invite me to record some of what I feel and feel, and perhaps my words will find someone who understands them.

In front of these creative leaders, what can we say?!

While they are in isolation cells, they teach us lessons, not only in patience, resistance and jihad, but in life and its philosophy, in realizing the facts, in knowing the types of people and understanding the human psyche.

Yes, whoever trusts that he will attain freedom soon while he is in isolation, and whoever does not suffer from the conditions of isolation as much as he suffers for Palestine and longs for its liberation, and whoever climbs the ladder of difficulties while drawing lessons and lessons, and recording them for the generations of Palestine, He assures our people and our nation that the resistance is fine. And that the banner of victory and liberation will inevitably fly over the country, and that the door of jihad will not be closed as long as our enemy is tampering with our land and our sanctities, and that the sacrifices of our people will not be in vain, and that the path towards the liberation of Palestine is open to those who have a heart or who have listened and witnessed.