Since his early years, his return has been intense and he is very valiant against his enemy, so his first attack in the resistance was a "car bomb" that he prepared and set out to detonate and kill the occupiers, but it was damaged and the Palestinian prisoner did not carry out his guerrilla operation, so he became a chaser of the occupation.

Kamji, who is 36 years old and hails from the village of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin (northern West Bank), is one of the six prisoners who were liberated through the "Freedom Tunnel" from Gilboa Prison at dawn last Monday.

In 2003, the series of the Israeli occupation's pursuit of the captive Kammaji began, after which the Palestinian security services arrested him to protect him. He remained for a year and a half in Jericho prison, from which he escaped by his own way and returned to his lair in the city of Jenin to continue his struggle against the occupation.

For many months, between hit and run, he fought the occupation, accusing him of shooting at its military checkpoints and targeting its soldiers and settlers, until he succeeded in kidnapping and killing a settler working as a military pilot named Eliyahu Oshri.

A picture of the prisoner Ayham Kammaji and his father next to him (Al Jazeera Net)

Pursuit, attempted assassination, and arrest

At that time, his father, Fuad Kammaji, says that the Palestinian security services arrested Ayham again in preparation for obtaining an Israeli pardon for him, like the rest of the pursuers, but the occupation did not want that, but rather pressured the authority to try him publicly and in the presence of television channels. That's 2006."

And what increased the occupation's insistence on prosecuting any of them and trying to kill or arrest him and "threatening the authority to bomb its security headquarters." The kidnapping and killing of the settler "Oshri" coincided with the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit by the resistance in Gaza, which made the event heated up.

With the father's determination and the softness of his heart, the 56-year-old father, Kammaji, told Al Jazeera Net - while he was preparing to participate in a sit-in in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners in his village - "Ayham - who is a tender young boy - tried arrest when he was 17 years old, to spend half his life and more in the prisons of the occupation." ".

naturally free

Back in his childhood, Ayham’s father recalled his personality as a “stubborn” boy who was distinguished by the determination and intelligence that made him excel in his school and prison. He obtained two bachelor’s and two master’s degrees and was preparing to complete other postgraduate studies as well.

This insistence was manifested in 2014 in Kimmji’s attempt to escape from Gilboa prison, and when he was exposed, he was punished by isolation and deprivation of his most basic rights, to return to the ball with members of his same group and together they succeeded in liberating themselves at dawn last Monday with an escape process described as “complicated and very dangerous.”

We asked Ayham's father, what makes a child his age - when he was arrested at the time - to do all this and refuse prison?

He replied, wondering what the occupation expects from a child born during the first intifada in 1987, and he opened his eyes to the Israeli invasion (in 2002) of his city of Jenin and its camp, and scenes of destruction and body parts of martyrs scattered here and there, not to mention that he "by nature loves freedom."

Outside the prison, his family's life was not calmer. The occupation arrested his younger brother, Ahed, and imprisoned him for 3 and a half years. Less than two months after his release, he was re-arrested administratively, and his mother died after a sudden stroke.

After Ayham’s success in escaping, the occupation punished his family by withdrawing visitor permits for his captive brother Ahed, and the intelligence officer called his father, warning him not to receive Ayham or respond to him, according to his father, who also adds, “I told him Ayham hardly knows his family, after his arrest for about two decades, the geography of the village changed and her family.”

With mixed feelings of fear, sadness and joy, the family of the captive Kammaji follows the fate of Ayham and his companions, "but as long as the unknown is in the hands of God, this is what reassures us," says the father.

There are verses that were transmitted by interactors on social media - it is said that the captive Kammaji recited them shortly before his liberation - became famous and says:

“Prison is dark to God, I complain about it.. and the grave is more merciful to me

From Ali Bfaraj, you are his ease.. as you gave to Youssef Ataq from prison.

Israeli police are looking for any leads to lead them to the prisoners (Getty Images)

The defensive leader.. and the delicate poet

Which of them - for those who do not know him - is a loved prisoner among his peers and a stubborn one who refuses to compromise with the occupation, especially with regard to the rights of prisoners, and as he is responsible for the section in which he was in prison, he "extracts" their rights from the jailer.

The freed prisoner Sheikh Maher Al-Akhras says that he "lived with him in the same rooms for several months, and any of them - despite his young age - was leading the initiative and always leading the scene and an eloquent orator.

Akhras continues, "He told us how he kidnapped the settler and planned to exchange him for Palestinian prisoners." In addition, he was a memorizer of the Holy Qur'an, "a great and powerful poet, and we would ask him for poetry and he would write to us within a short time the sweetest and most beautiful words."

It is not strange for a prisoner like any of them - trying to escape from the jailer's eye once or twice - to tell his comrades in captivity about his battles in the field and his clashes with the enemy, and he was constantly thinking about how to get out of prison.