Thread by @mokawima

On May 25, 2000, through armed resistance, South Lebanon liberated itself from the 18 yr Zionist occupation & the barbaric Israeli torture of civilians in death camps. A first in Arab history. Thread of celebration footage on one of the worst days in zionist colonizer's history.

This video depicts the renowned moment when the tortured prisoners of the Khiam death camp in South Lebanon were freed by their own families. The stories from the women and men detained by the criminal genocidal Israeli occupiers are outrageous and beyond inhumane.

The zionists invaded SL mainly because it welcomed Palestinian refugees & espoused their cause & their resistance groups. The Southern Lebanese paid a heavy price which they maintain they're ready to pay again anytime in defense of the occupied lands & the oppressed Palestinians.

Lebanon's many resistance factions including communists, Arab nationalists & Islamic resistance of all sects, achieved victory against imperialism together. On that day (& 2006) they proved even the "invincible army" could be humiliated through guerilla warfare of the righteous!

The defeat of zionist occupiers was due to armed resistance & armed resistance only. Imperial-backed colonizers can't defeat a people for whom martyrdom in defense of their land & the oppressed is an honor! We are free today through the blood of the freedom fighters, men & women.

Our victory is incomplete without that of the Palestinians. Through armed struggle, the only effective means of decolonization, they are already paving the way & will also live these liberating scenes & free the thousands of unjustly imprisoned generations of Palestinians soon.

For the first time in history, Merkavas were put to good use. The coward zionists left everything and ran.
"The zionist entity is weaker than a spider web" -Sayed Hassan Nasrallah. Today especially, we know that truer words have never been spoken.

Gaza celebrates zionist withdrawal & defeat in Lebanon. May 26, 2000.

While the West (including their leftists) continue to demonize any resistance to their imperialism & try to sow discord between our people who are separated by drawn borders, we will never give up our dignity.

"Oh dear South, you alone have revived the glory of the Arabs"
وحدك يا جنوب بترجع مجد العرب
#عيد_المقاومة_والتحر
#أيار_الانتصار

Haaretz (zionist newspaper): "Although all these years have passed since the defeat inflicted by Lebanon on Israel in 2000,
it still remains an open wound in the heart of Israelis".

Cosette Ibrahim, a 25 year old Lebanese journalist arrested and held without trial like all other prisoners. She was taken for writing against the occupation of South Lebanon. Pictured here on May 25, 2000 when the prison was liberated & the Zionists fled.

https://twitter.com/layalhaddad/status/1396888179530141697?s=19