Sir Ammar Mardi Coordinator of the Supreme National Emergency Committee of the Prisoners' Movement (social media)

A prisoner, resistance fighter and "Jordanian-Palestinian" militant belonging to the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), arrested by the Israeli occupation forces in 2002. He became the coordinator of the Supreme National Emergency Committee of the prisoner movement, and contributed to framing the protest movements of Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons of different affiliations.

Birth and upbringing

Ammar Mustafa Ahmad Mardi was born on September 18, 1981, grew up in the West Bank city of Ramallah and holds Jordanian citizenship alongside Palestinian citizenship.

He began his activism at an early age, and became hunted by the occupation forces before he was over 18 years old.

Study and training

In 2000, he joined Birzeit University as a political science student, but his arrest on June 9, 2002, prevented him from completing his studies.

Ammar was able to complete his studies behind bars and earned a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in Israeli studies, although the occupation authorities had rejected his request and that of a group of fellow prisoners to complete their studies in October 2010 citing security reasons.

Struggle experience

After three years of detention, the interrogation began with Ammar al-Mardi and lasted for three months, until he was sentenced to life imprisonment and 3 years.

Ammar al-Mardi continued their struggles with the rest of the prisoners from inside the occupation prisons, and is the youngest organizational representative of the prisoners in prisons, and Fatah's representative in the Supreme National Emergency Committee of the prisoner movement.

In 2022, he was transferred to Hadarim prison, where he was chosen in September of the same year to be a member of the "strike leadership committee" announced by the leadership of the prisoner movement in the occupation prisons, after Israel's intransigence and insistence on its arbitrary retaliatory measures against the prisoners.

In March 2023, Mardi participated in a hunger strike against repressive measures against Palestinian prisoners.

On November 5, 2023, the Israeli prison administration decided to isolate him in "Salmon" prison with orders to prevent him from visiting.

On February 2, 2015, his mother died after battling illness and he was denied a last look at her, after being prevented from visiting him for eight years, and his siblings were unable to visit him for many years.

Source : Social Media