Palestinian prisoners Mahmoud Arda, 46, sent a letter to his mother through his lawyer, Quds News Network reported on Friday.
#Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Arda mother, who was detained again by IOF in Nazareth city last night after he claimed his freedom from Gilboa Prison last week.
She felt the pain of his imprisonment twice, especially that she thought she will hug him in their home…#نفق_الحرية pic.twitter.com/qUvGeWXhrW
— Motherland (@Motherl28134473) September 11, 2021
The letter read as follows:
“I’d like to extend my greetings to you, mom, and tell you that I tried very hard to come and hug you before you leave this world, but I couldn’t.
“You are in my heart and head. The good news is that I have eaten figs from many places across our homeland. I also ate prickly pears, pomegranates, sumac, and wild thyme. I even ate guava for the first time in 25 years. I had a jar of honey as a gift for you. Extend my greetings to my dead sisters Basima, Ruba, Khitam, and Saeda, and to my brothers as well, as I miss them a lot.
“I smelled freedom and we saw that the world has changed. I climbed the mountains of Palestine for long hours and we walked across broad plains. I saw how the plain of Arraba, my hometown, is a small part of Bisan and Nazareth.
“My greetings to all family members and friends. My greetings to my niece, Sinat, who I wore her socks all across the mountains. My greetings to Abdullah, Hadeel, Yousef, the wife of Raddad, and all family, to Sarah, Rahaf, Ghada, Muhammad, and everyone. A special greeting to Huda. I miss her so much and I will send the whole story to her.”
Prisoner Mahmoud #Arda sends a heart-wrenching letter to his mother through his attorney:
Dear Mom, I tried to come and hug you, but this is what Allah wants for us.
Mom, you’ve always been in the heart.#Gilboaprison #MahmoudArda pic.twitter.com/sONL6E9CAo— Noor Yacoubi 🇵🇸 (@nooryacoubii) September 17, 2021
Arda, 46, spent over 28 years of his life in Israeli jails, 25 of which are continuous. He is serving a life sentence.
On September 6, along with other five prisoners, he managed to carry out a daring escape from the highly fortified Gilboa prison. However, he was recaptured by the Israeli Police on the outskirts of Nazareth, north of occupied Palestine.
(QNN, PC, Social Media)
