Take action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners: January 15-25, 2026

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15 January 2026 marks the 24th anniversary of the abduction of Palestinian liberation movement leader Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, by the so-called “Palestinian Authority” under its “security coordination” with the Zionist regime. For four years, Sa’adat and his comrades were imprisoned by the PA — and held under U.S., British and Canadian guard — before they were abducted, once again, on 14 March 2006 by the Zionist occupation forces. Since then, Sa’adat and his comrades, leaders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, have been held inside the notorious Zionist prisons, and subjected to isolation, torture and medical abuse and neglect. Today, they are among the leadership prisoners threatened with assassination daily inside the occupation prisons.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all who stand with Palestine — Palestine solidarity groups and collectives, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim community organizations, anti-imperialist organizations, political parties and liberation movements — to join between 15 and 25 January 2026 in a week of action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners in Zionist dungeons, in PA jails, and in the prisons of imperialist and reactionary regimes.

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The Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners has been marked annually for nearly 15 years. This year, the dates also coincide with a day of media action on 15-16 January 2026 by the Red Ribbons Campaign/Save Palestinian Prisoners Campaign, which focuses on the struggle to free Palestinians in occupation prisons, including medical workers like Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, and all imprisoned Palestinians — as well as campaigning to stop the dangerous “execution law” being promulgated by ultra-Zionist, racist “Israeli” national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. We urge all to participate in this day of media action, as well as activities organized as part of this campaign on 31 January 2026 for the Palestinian prisoners and their liberation.

The call to action is particularly urgent this year. Since 7 October 2023, amid the Al-Aqsa Flood and the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, at least 87 identified Palestinian prisoners have already been assassinated inside the Zionist jails, either directly under torture or due to deliberate medical neglect and abuse. In almost all cases, the occupation continues to imprison the bodies of the martyrs — in addition to the bodies of hundreds of martyrs held hostage by the Zionist regime. Palestinian prisoners are subjected to a starvation policy, denied family and even legal visits, and subjected to repeated raids and attacks inside the prisons — all under the guise of a “state of emergency” — perpetuated for over two years and renewed only yesterday.

Liberated prisoner Georges Abdallah marks the anniversary of the abduction of Ahmad Sa’adat in Beirut, 15 January 2026

The leadership of the prisoners’ movement, of which Ahmad Sa’adat is a prominent figure, alongside Marwan Barghouti, Abdullah Barghouti, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Anas Jaradat, Hassan Salameh, Abbas al-Sayyed, Ibrahim Hamed, Jamal Abu al-Haija, Muammar Shahrour, Muhannad Shreim, and other leaders of the prisoners’ movement, are particularly targeted for abuse. They have been repeatedly assaulted and beaten by occupation jailers, threatened with assassination, denied medical care, starved, and thrown in isolation. At the same time, Ben-Gvir, who oversees the condition of the prisoners, and the entire Zionist government, are pushing a new “execution law” to legalize the assassination of Palestinian prisoners, particularly those designated as “elite prisoners.” Just two days ago, this bill passed its first reading in the Zionist Knesset. Now, more than ever, we must organize and speak out to save, protect and liberate all Palestinian prisoners — and support these leaders of the Palestinian resistance and liberation movement under attack.

In addition, this anniversary draws attention to the dangerous role of the treacherous so-called “Palestinian Authority,” created by the Oslo accords, and its “security coordination” regime, serving as an agent of the occupation and of imperialist powers, rather than acting to protect and defend the Palestinian people from the genocidal occupation regime. The abduction of Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades is not a historical anecdote two decades later; instead, it has become standard practice.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested and are currently held in Palestinian Authority jails because they are accused of resisting the occupation; PA prisons operate as “revolving doors” with the occupation jails. In the besieged refugee camps of the West Bank, such as Jenin, Tulkarem and Nour Shams, the PA’s “homeland protection” campaign came as a precursor to the ongoing Zionist invasions that have displaced tens of thousands. In Gaza, not only did the PA fail to act against genocide, but PA officials such as Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) have joined in the U.S.-Zionist demands to disarm the resistance, while the Rada’ (Deterrence) Force issued a statement just today warning of the PA’s role in supporting gangs of collaborators in occupied areas of the Strip.

Further, the PA has, in recent months, escalated its financial collaboration with Zionist and imperialist demands, and cut the salaries of the families of prisoners and martyrs, creating hardship and crisis for the families of those who have given the most in defense of Palestine. This anniversary is an open call to speak out, to expose and to confront this dangerous attack on the Palestinian prisoners and the Resistance.

The case of Ahmad Sa’adat highlights imperialist complicity and full involvement in Zionist genocide — and the imprisonment of the Palestinian resistance. When he was abducted by the Palestinian Authority, he and his comrades were held under U.S., British, and Canadian guard in the PA-run Jericho prison. Today, there are dozens if not more Palestinian and Palestine solidarity prisoners in imperialist jails and facing persecution, in the United States, Britain, Canada, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere, as well as in Arab reactionary regime prisons.

These same powers, led by the United States, are currently also attacking Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution by imprisoning President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, and threatening further war, aggression, and economic coercive measures against Iran, targeting the nations and peoples that continue to resist imperialist domination and plunder.

This week of action coincides with important hearings in Italy in the cases of Anan Yaeesh, Mansour Doghmosh and Ali Irar, as well as in the case of the seven imprisoned Palestinians including Mohammed Hannoun, and in the case of Ahmed Salem, on 16 and 20 January. It also coincides with an ongoing hunger strike by the Prisoners for Palestine in British jails that seeks to end British complicity in the genocide and challenge the criminalization of Palestine Action and the Palestine movement broadly. While Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmad and Lewie C ended their strike yesterday with the announcement that Elbit Systems would be denied a £2 billion training contract with the British military, Umer Khalid is continuing his hunger strike to demand a full shutdown of Elbit, release on bail, ending censorship of communications, a fair trial, and the deproscription of Palestine Action. We urge participants in the week of action to highlight and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian and international prisoners for Palestine held in imperialist jails everywhere, as well as in anti-imperialist demonstrations and actions against war and aggression.

Palestinian prisoners are Resistance leaders, on the front lines for justice and liberation, struggling relentlessly, with an unbreakable will, toward freedom amid the most dire conditions of torture, abuse, medical neglect and deliberate killing. This is a critical moment to take action, escalate, and make their voices heard — for justice, return and liberation.

24 years after his arrest, it is long past time for freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat, his fellow Resistance leaders and all Palestinian Prisoners in Zionist, imperialist, reactionary and Palestinian Authority jails.

33 years after Oslo, it is long past time to expose the so-called Palestinian Authority and bring down its  “security coordination” and treachery against the Palestinian people.

78 years after al-Nakba, it is long past time for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

We call for an international week of actions from January 15th to January 25th, calling for the liberation of Ahmad Sa’adat, his fellow resistance leaders and all Palestinian prisoners, confronting the “state of emergency” and the “execution law,” demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, highlighting the malevolent role of the “Palestinian Authority,” and challenging the imperialist enemy. Take action to escalate against the zionist genocidal colonial entity, organize for justice in Palestine!

What can you do at you local level?

  • Endorse the Week of Action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners.
  • Organize or join a protest or demonstration against the ongoing Zionist-imperialist genocide in Palestine, or against ongoing imperialist wars and aggression against Venezuela, Iran and around the world, with a contingent, signs or banners for Ahmad Sa’adat and the Palestinian prisoners
  • Educate through your networks: organize a discussion on Resistance leaders and political prisoners, share resources about Ahmad Sa’adat and Palestinian prisoners on social media and in your community
  • Organize an event, protest, teach-in stand or letter-writing meeting for the Week of Action.
  • Organize events, actions and protests to demand freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian Prisoners. Protest in public spaces, campuses and community spaces.
  • Take direct action to confront the war machine: From Elbit Systems to Microsoft to Maersk, take direct, confrontational, escalatory or labor action to stop the profiteers of genocide.
  • Share our resources online, and/or print the posters and flyers linked to above and distribute them in your local communities or neighborhoods.
  • Join the Red Ribbons/Save Palestinian Prisoners social media campaign, as well as protests and local actions, from 16-31 January 2026.

“The Palestinian struggle for national liberation is part and parcel of the international movement of peoples for national liberation, international racial and economic justice, and an end to occupation, colonialism and imperialism.” – Ahmad Sa’adat

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