“Yama O Yama .. Where are you Yama .. Why are you not waiting for me ..” With these words, the liberated Palestinian prisoner Rushdi Abu Makh (58 years) cried from the city of Baqa al-Gharbiyya - to the north of Tulkarm - his late mother Rasmia Abu Mukh, nicknamed “the mother of the prisoners.” ".

Speech stopped and emotions overflowed at her shrine, which Rushdie had attached to his chest, perhaps touching his mother's bosom, which he had deprived of 35 years spent in the absence of Israeli prisons.

On this day and two years ago, the mother of the released prisoner, Rushdi Al-Hajjah, officially passed away, after she was absent from death at the age of 85 years after 33 years of waiting between hope and dream, which accompanied decades of suffering that embodied the concerns of absence, separation and harassment by the Israeli establishment on the families of the prisoners .

Formal need lived for that moment, hoping that she would embrace freedom by embracing her liberated son and celebrating his wedding.

Story to tell

Editor Rushdi's story narrates the stations that the captive movement has lived through in Baqa al-Gharbiyya since 1986, and bears in its chapters the suffering of 4 families from the town, their companions and their companions, and the battle of freedom that al-Hajja officially fought alongside Hajjah Aisha Bayadas, the mother of the captive Ibrahim, who was absent from death at the end of 2015, The need is unique, Dakka, the mother of the prisoner, Walid, who was sick of the disease.

March 1986 was a milestone in the lives of all the prisoners, Ibrahim Abu Makh, Rushdi Abu Makh, Walid Daqqa and Ibrahim Bayadasa, after the Israeli authorities arrested them and convicted them of “membership in a cell that carried out the kidnapping and killing of the Israeli soldier Moshe Tamam in 1985.”

The prisoners of Baka are added to the 48 old Palestinian prisoners of the 12 prisoners who were arrested before the Oslo agreement, and the oldest of them are Karim Yunis and Maher Younis from the town of Arara - Aara near Umm al-Fahm - who have been detained since 1983, while the number of prisoners from inside is about 120, 50 Prisoners of them spent 20 years or more in Israeli prisons.

The biography and path of the editor Rushdie and his family reflect the reality and suffering of the captive movement in general and the reality of the challenges faced by the families of Palestinian prisoners who were imposed on them and whose freedom exceeded the Oslo Agreement, which is the paper that excluded them from many of the exchange deals that the Palestinian and Arab resistance factions conducted with the Israeli governments that were considered prisoners The 48 Palestinians are "an internal affair."

Twelve prisoners are considered among the Palestinian veterans who were arrested before the Oslo agreement, and they were among the fourth batch who were supposed to be released by Tel Aviv, following understandings between the Palestinian Authority and Israel in March 2014, mediated by the United States, but the Israeli government disavowed that, and it did not Do not release them.

Parting and joy

In the presence of separation, tears, stations of joy, rejoicing and chants, Al-Jazeera Net accompanied the editor Rushdi Abu Makh after his liberation from the Negev desert prison, which is about 250 kilometers from his hometown in Baqa al-Gharbiye, where Rushdie insisted that he go to the city of Lod to visit the mother of the prisoner companion, the freed prisoner, Mukhlas Bargal. .

Prisoner Rushdi Abu Mokh, upon his release from the Israeli prison (Al-Jazeera)

The Israeli authorities did not allow the prisoner Rushdie to participate in his mother's funeral or attend the funeral home, and he chose to be the first stop in his hometown to visit the cemetery, where he embraced his mother’s tomb, he burst into tears and expressed his feelings about his words that his tongue could not utter in the presence of death and separation.

On his way to visit the mother of the prisoner, Walid Daqqa, the editor, Rushdie, did not believe the scenes of his mother’s tomb, and said, "You were supposed to be among us ... I do not comprehend ... She waited for me 33 years and lived on dream and hope for my freedom and my wedding, but she did not bear the suffering of families, separation and moving between prisons." .

The released prisoner Rushdi Abu Mokh with the wife and child of the captive Walid Daqqa (Al-Jazeera)

Abuse and torment

Rushdie recalls his mother and her suffering - as is the case for various mothers of old prisoners - when they visited him for 10 years.

Visits were resumed for half an hour from behind a glass wall, as his handicapped mother appeared in front of him on a wheelchair to talk to him on the phone without allowing him to hug her or kiss her head.

This scene, described by Rushdie, "the summit of abuse and torment for the prisoner and his family."

Rushdi Abu Mokh visits Hajjah Farida Daqqa, the mother of the captive Walid Daqah (Al-Jazeera)

Mothers of prisoners of war are as mother

Editor Rushdie says, "I am distressed by the departure of my mother while I am in prison, but all the mothers of the prisoners are in the same position as my mother .. I look at the mothers of the family comrades Karim, Maher, Walid, Ibrahim and Mawlid, and I see in them my mother, and perhaps this is my consolation and what relieves me of my suffering by losing my mother without farewell and without embracing."

In front of the captive’s mother, Walid Daqqa, who was unconscious by the disease, the editor Rushdie tries to stimulate her memory with details from the first visits to families and his close relationship with Waleed even before the families.

And in the language of the eyes and the silence of her tongue, as if the mother welcomes my rash and tells him, "We wish the freedom of Walid."

The mother of the captive Walid - according to Rushdie - reflects the decades of suffering of prisoners in the Great Prison of Life under the occupation and the suffering of the captive movement in the thick of the prisons.

Editor Rushdie called for an end to the state of division that negatively affected the captive movement and its precipitations, which now threaten the Palestinian people.

And he called on all Palestinian parties, factions and national forces to intensify pressures for the release of all prisoners and prisoners and to save them from the slow death in Israeli prisons.

He said, "We are a free people and we have the right to freedom. A person was created to live free in his land and country. We are rightful and we are not ashamed of what we have done."