The Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, calls upon the Palestinian, Lebanese and Arab masses and free people of the world to actively participate in the international campaign to liberate Lebanese prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, the launch of which was announced today in Beirut at the initiative of the Assembly of Detainees and Freed Prisoners in Lebanon, and the families of the prisoners, with the participation of Arab and international human rights forces.

The struggle for the freedom of Lebanese prisoners in the prisons of the Zionist enemy is an integral part of the comprehensive liberation battle waged by the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples, the peoples of the region, and the free people of the world against the Zionist entity and its colonial allies. Liberating prisoners is a national and human duty that is inseparable from resisting the occupation and confronting U.S.-Zionist projects of normalization and hegemony in the region.

We consider this campaign a unified platform for the Arab and international liberation struggle to break the walls of silence regarding the occupation’s crimes against prisoners. We call upon all to support the efforts organized by the Assembly of Detainees and Freed Prisoners in Lebanon, in coordination with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and to expand the scope of the campaign to include all prisoners and detainees in the prisons of the Zionist enemy, and prisoners of the Palestinian liberation struggle in U.S., British, and European prisons.

It is particularly important to work together with the families of Lebanese prisoners and the campaign organizers in Lebanon and abroad, calling on liberation movements, labor unions, youth, student, and women’s organizations at the heart of the imperial core, as well as in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, to shed light on the issue of Lebanese prisoners and mobilize the broadest popular and international support for their just cause. It also emphasized the role of Lebanese and Palestinian communities and organizations in exile and diaspora in fulfilling their central and influential role in this regard.

The freedom of Lebanese prisoners is a major issue for the prisoners’ movement in the occupation prisons, and part of the liberation struggle, and that the battle against the Zionist enemy requires the unity of the resistance forces in various fronts, arenas, and sites of struggle.