09/10/1995: The first Victory

Who can forget our first victory for the World Support which The Follow-Up Committee for the Support of the Lebanese Detainees in the Israeli Prisons organized and which resulted with in the ability for the Red Cross to enter the KDC and in the ability of the detainees' parents to visit them.

23/05/2000: The Second Victory

ON 23/05/2000, THE LEBANESE PEOPLE STORMED INTO THE HORROR CAMP AND SAVED THE DETAINEES. 
THE KHIAM DETENTION CAMP IS CLOSED FOREVER. 

What happend on this glorious day? 

Hundreds of villagers stormed the notorious Khiam detention center on Tuesday, tearing down its gates and barbed-wire barricades to free 144 detainees after their SLA militia jailors had abandoned the complex. 
Up to 500 villagers, backed by resistance fighters firing in the air and chanting “Allahu Akbar” marched on Khiam in the early afternoon as delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross were trying to find militia leaders to negotiate an orderly release of the detainees. 

Five inmates ­ including Suleiman Ramadan, who with 15 years in detention was the centers longest-serving prisoners ­ were taken to the Marjayoun hospital suffering from physical and emotional stress. 
Detainees from the dwindling zone went straight to their homes, while others had to wait until a passage was secured for them. Hundreds of families waited at the crossroads between Nabatieh, Kfar Tibnit, and Arnoun as rumors spread that the detainees would be accompanied through the Kfar Tibnit passage. 
Long hours of waiting did not discourage the hundreds of people who crowded the streets, and as many waited for family members, others anticipated the liberation of their villages so they could finally go home. 
Others were simply there to share in the joy and to greet the homecoming heroes. 

Mohammad Safa, the Secretary General of the Follow-Up Committee for the Support of Lebanese Detainees in Israeli Prisons, said that the evacuation of the Khiam prison was a triumph, but that the victory would be incomplete until all detainees in Israeli prisons had been released. 
Earlier, he had encouraged villagers to invade the prison, most of the former detainees, escorted by representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross, were on their way to Beirut’s southern suburbs to be congratulated by the officials and supporters.

29/01/2004: The Ultimate Victory - Freedom for the Lebanese Hostages

ON 29/01/2004, the LEBANESE Hostages will be free at last.

The 29th of January 2004 is a glorious and historical day for Lebanon, Palestine and all humanity.

This day, freedom was honored and our National Resistance succeeded in the liberation of thousands of Arab detainees from the Israeli prisons:

There will be 23 Lebanese detainees, 400 Palestinian detainees, 5 Syrians, 3 from Sudan, 3 from Morocco, one Libyan and one German released today. In addition of this, 59 bodies of Lebanese resistant tortured and killed during the occupation will be given back, with information about some Lebanese and Palestinian missing.

Due to this agreement the Israeli government will also deliver maps of the mines her army planted in southern Lebanon during his long occupation.

After 3 long and laborious years of negotiations, the German mediation succeeded in the release of these detains and the exchange operation between Israel and HizboAllah.

Our struggle in the Khiam Rehabilitation center and the follow up committee for the support of Lebanese detainees for the liberation of our Heroes was supported by hundreds of Arab and International human rights organizations that we deeply thank.

This Victory is not completed; it urges us to work harder on this national case for the release of all the Lebanese detainees and work on the rehabilitation of the released, giving them all the psychological, medical and social assistance that they deserve.

Mohammed Safa