Raed Musa - Gaza
Osama Murtaja does not remember that he was absent from a day in participating in field events, to support the steadfastness of the prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons, especially on the "prisoner day" which falls on April 17 of each year.
On April 17, 1974, the Palestinian National Council approved, during its 12th session, which was held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, a national day for prisoners, known as the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner.
Unusually, mass events were absent from the Palestinian streets this year, and were replaced by "electronic demonstrations" on the anniversary of this year's captive day, pursuant to precautionary measures for fear of an outbreak of the Corona virus.
"It was not acceptable that the day of the prisoner pass without we appearing as Palestinians, and with us the free people of the world, our love and support for thousands of female prisoners, and it was necessary to search for creative and creative ideas," he said.
Murtaja participated with thousands of activists in Palestine and abroad in Twitter on Tags, most notably "Palestinian Prisoner Day", "Our Families in the Heart" and "Our Families Our Case", received great interaction and occupied the advanced positions in the list of the most traded on Twitter and Facebook.
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As for Mourta, participation in these activities constitutes the "weakest faith" and the least that can be offered to the prisoners, who spend the most beautiful years of their lives in the prisons and cells.
Murtaja holds - a few months ago - a master's degree on a study on exchange deals for Palestinian-Israeli prisoners, who believes in the necessity of working with all means and means for the release of prisoners.
According to official Palestinian data, Israel holds about five thousand Palestinians in its prisons, among them 42 prisoners, 200 children and minors, and of the total prisoners, 700 are prisoners of chronic and critical diseases.
There is hardly any Palestinian house without one or more individuals who tasted the bitterness of detention in the occupation prisons, which, according to Palestinian data, have entered more than a million Palestinians since the defeat of June 1967.
The Palestinians see a lot of respect for the prisoners as one of the brightest pages in the history of the Palestinian national struggle, according to Murtaja.
The tweets were keen to show the suffering of the prisoners deprived of their most basic human rights, not to publish numbers, statistics, pictures and drawings, while linking the poor reality of the prisoners with the Corona virus pandemic.
Rawan Al Maghari published on her account on Twitter an expressive picture showing captive patients who are bound, and said, "As the world wrestles with the Corona virus, there are prisoners who struggle with torture and wish for freedom .. The night is long for them and health is robbed of them as freedom is taken."
Mohamed Abdel Aziz published a picture of the children of the prisoners ’families holding signs calling for freedom for their parents, and he said in a post on his account on Twitter:“ Oh, all the parents are tired of house confinement for days. Baba is also tired of being imprisoned for many years in the cells of the occupation. .
In hundreds of other posts, Twitter users showed hope for the release of the prisoners in a close exchange deal between Israel and the Palestinian resistance.
And at a time when the group’s prayers were absent from the mosques about a month ago as part of the preventive measures, loudspeakers in a number of West Bank mosques were issued with a unified Friday sermon around the prisoners, but without worshipers, while the loudspeakers in the Gaza mosques made a prayer for the prisoners for five minutes as part of a campaign. Amen "called by the prisoners in a leaked statement from inside the prisons.
Local radio stations opened uniform waves, canceled their regular programs, and focused on reviving the "prisoner day" through the participation of the families of the prisoners, freed prisoners, and officials in human rights organizations.
Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Prisoners and Editors ’Committee affiliated with the Liberation Organization of Al-Jazeera Net, said,“ The conditions imposed by the Corona Virus necessitated this type of electronic activities in solidarity with the prisoners. ”
"We have sent letters in seven languages through Palestinian embassies abroad to hundreds of countries and international institutions around the world, talking about the suffering of prisoners in prisons, and their difficult current reality with the spread of Corona," he added.
Abu Bakr reaffirmed his accusation that Israel dealt carelessly and recklessly with the prisoners ’lives, as it did not take adequate preventive measures, and took advantage of the global concern to continue its violations of their rights.
Official and civil Arab and international institutions, and legal personalities participated in electronic activities to revive the prisoner's day.
The director of the Documentation Unit in the Prisoners Authority, the freed prisoner Abdel Nasser Farwana told Al-Jazeera Net that the campaigns organized by the European Alliance to support the prisoners of Palestine "this year were the most interactive during the past years, despite the preoccupation with the Corona crisis."
More than 500 international institutions, parliamentarians and legal persons representing 44 countries on six continents interacted with the activities of the Prisoner's Day, and signed a document calling for the rescue of prisoners in the occupation prisons, according to Farwana.
He explained that some of those who signed this document did not have a supportive position in the past years. He said, "Perhaps the domestic and health quarantine that billions of people have been subjected to around the world has made them feel the suffering of the prisoners who have been imprisoned in the darkness of prisons for years and decades."