Ahmad Sa’adat under attack as Zionist regime targets prisoners’ movement leadership

Rami Abou Jamous writes his diary for Orient XXI. The founder of GazaPress, a bureau that provided assistance and translation to Western journalists, was forced to leave his Gaza City apartment in October 2023 with his wife, Sabah, her children, and their three-year-old son, Walid, under threat from the Israeli army. Since taking refuge in Rafah, the family was then forced to move to Deir El-Balah and later to Nusseirat, trapped like so many fam…

Ahmad Sa’adat under attack as Zionist regime targets prisoners’ movement leadership

Amid the ongoing assault on the leadership of the prisoners’ movement, in which prominent leaders of the Palestinian people and their resistance, especially those who are a high priority for release in a prisoner exchange, are being subjected to solitary confinement, beatings, starvation and torture, Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is being held in isolation in Megiddo prison.…