Released terrorist who transported suicide bomber: “We… will leave the prisons and return to the struggle until the liberation of Palestine”
Headline: "Randy Odeh, a marriage that was delayed 18 years"
"Finally the joy of prisoner Randy Odeh (i.e., terrorist, transported would-be suicide bomber) was completed after 18 years of imprisonment in the occupation's prisons, as he was released yesterday evening, Thursday [March 5, 2020], from Ktzi'ot Prison and insisted on being married the day of his release, and indeed this is what happened…
Randy said to [the official PA news agency] WAFA: 'My message through my marriage immediately after leaving prison is the continuation of the struggle to give birth to a generation that will carry the flag and continue the struggle until the occupation's defeat.'
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He also said that the prisoners' message is the unity of all of our Palestinian people, as they stand behind their leadership in refusing all of the plots that are being woven against our people, the latest of which is ‘the deal of the century' (i.e., US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan; see note below). Their message is also that'We are resolute in our positions and will leave the prisons and return to the struggle until the liberation of Palestine. We are the sons of Palestine and will continue to defend it until the liberation of the homeland.'
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'Prisoner Randy was arrested 18 years ago on the pretext that he transported a Martyrdom-seeker (i.e., suicide bomber) who carried out an operation (sic., the attack was thwarted) in the 1948 territories (i.e., Israel), despite all evidence proving his non-participation. However, the occupation insisted on pinning onto him an unjust sentence of 18 consecutive years in prison' – Issa Odeh, the prisoner's father, began his address with these words.
He added: 'We are happy today and our joy is double thanks to the release of my oldest son and his wedding. We have already suffered a lot, beginning with our expulsion from our village of Ein Kerem, which is west of occupied Jerusalem, during the Nakba (i.e., “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) and after it in the journey of being refugees outside of our village and our struggle against the occupation.'"
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