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<h1 id="reader-title">Lena Jarbouni and Khalida Jarrar: Messages
to the Palestinian People on Prisoners’ Day</h1>
April 19, 2016<br>
<p>Palestinian prisoners <a
href="http://samidoun.net/2014/02/feb-14-london-protest-g4s-complicity-in-torture-free-lena-al-jarboni-and-the-hares-boys/">Lena
Jarbouni</a>, the longest serving woman prisoner, who has
entered her fifteenth year in Israeli prisons, and <a
href="http://samidoun.net/khalidajarrar">Khalida Jarrar,</a>
Palestinian parliamentarian feminist, leftist and prisoner
advocate, issued messages to the Palestinian people on the
occasion of Prisoners’ Day, 17 April.</p>
<p>Palestinian lawyer Hanan al-Khatib delivered the messages
following her visits with Jarbouni and Jarrar in HaSharon
prison:</p>
<p>Lena Jarbouni’s message:</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>With all love and greetings. Every year we are free.</p>
<p>Khalida Jarrar’s statement:</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Every year, Palestine and our prisoners are free.</p>
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