Ramallah governor welcomes released prisoner
Ramallah and El-Bireh Governor Laila Ghannam posted images and text on her Facebook page
Posted text: “Elder of the prisoners, fighting Maj. Gen. Fuad Al-Shubaki ‘Abu Hazem’ (i.e., senior PA official and weapons smuggler) embraces freedom after 17 years of pride, firmness, and greatness that he spent behind the occupation’s bars.
At the mausoleum for the memory of the Martyr that lives within us [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat, which [Al-Shubaki] insisted that it be the first place he directed his steps towards with his release.
We had the honor of receiving an elder of Palestine, who has recorded in the pages of history the meanings of firmness and sacrifice when he defied the tortures of the prisons, the cells, and the policy of slow death in order to return to the embrace of his homeland and his free people with his head held high.
We bless released [prisoner] Al-Shubaki on the occasion of his freedom, and Palestine over the return of its elder. Through him we wish approaching freedom to all our heroic prisoners and lauded female prisoners, who are fighting the battle of freedom and honor in dealing with the procedures, plans, and policies of extremist [Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar] Ben Gvir and the Israeli Prison Service management against them.
Every time we receive a prisoner our faith and certainty strengthen that the prison gates are not locked on anyone, and that regardless of how long the darkness of prison lasts, dawn and freedom must break through.”
The images show Ramallah and El-Bireh Governor Laila Ghannam, Fatah Deputy Chairman and Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud Al-Aloul, and PLO Executive Committee member Azzam Al-Ahmad with released terrorist prisoner Fuad Al-Shubaki at a reception event.
[Ramallah and El-Bireh Governor Laila Ghannam, Facebook page, March 13, 2023]