[Pnews] Lena Jarbouni and Khalida Jarrar: Messages to the Palestinian People on Prisoners’ Day

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  Lena Jarbouni and Khalida Jarrar: Messages to the Palestinian People
  on Prisoners’ Day

April 19, 2016

Palestinian prisoners Lena Jarbouni 
<http://samidoun.net/2014/02/feb-14-london-protest-g4s-complicity-in-torture-free-lena-al-jarboni-and-the-hares-boys/>, 
the longest serving woman prisoner, who has entered her fifteenth year 
in Israeli prisons, and Khalida Jarrar, 
<http://samidoun.net/khalidajarrar> Palestinian parliamentarian 
feminist, leftist and prisoner advocate, issued messages to the 
Palestinian people on the occasion of Prisoners’ Day, 17 April.

Palestinian lawyer Hanan al-Khatib delivered the messages following her 
visits with Jarbouni and Jarrar in HaSharon prison:

Lena Jarbouni’s message:

On Prisoners’ Day, I greet the Palestinian people and all of the free 
people of the world. Through these fifteen years, I have seen the 
passage of many families and prisoners since the date of my arrest, 
which coincided with Prisoners’ Day on 17 April 2002. Hundreds of women 
prisoners held behind bars have stood firm in the struggle, along with 
the sons of our people, confirming that the Palestinian women are 
struggling against the occupation and fighting for social justice, 
emancipation and equality in all spheres of life.

On this day, we salute the longest-serving prisoner Karim Younis, and 
all of the prisoners throughout Palestine, the Palestinian prisoners’ 
national movement, and the Arab prisoners, and we salute the child 
prisoners, boys and girls, sick prisoners, and those in solitary 
confinement and all of our steadfast people. We assure you that we are 
held as captives behind bars, but we are free in our minds, and in our 
convictions. Our freedom remains in our hope and our conviction in the 
freedom of Palestine.

With all love and greetings. Every year we are free.

Khalida Jarrar’s statement:

Greetings to all brave prisoners. It is very important to work for the 
liberation of the prisoners, confronting the mass arrests, the goal of 
which is to break the backbone of the Palestinian people, especially 
targeting women, children, and the growing number of administrative 
detainees. The goal is to prevent and suppress any voices of resistance 
to the occupation and erase its existence, but it will only escalate the 
struggle. The prisoners are determined to continue their struggle, 
alongside their families, with the support of the Palestinian people, 
for the freedom of the prisoners, the freedom of our people, and the 
defeat of the occupation.

Every year, Palestine and our prisoners are free.

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