Thread by @Workshops4Gaza

Leqaa Kordia is a 32-year old Palestinian woman from the West Bank who was kidnapped by ICE in March 2025 for participating in a protest at Columbia University. She is still detained at the Prairieland Detention Facility in TX, where 16 anti-ICE protestors are also being held 🧵

On June 4, 2025, Leqaa wrote a statement in Arabic from her prison cell, which her loved ones translated into English. As we have not seen many groups uplift it, we'd like to do that here, as well as encourage people to donate to her legal funds.

Peace be upon you, and the mercy and blessings of God.
Peace be upon you, O Palestine.
Peace be upon Gaza, the steadfast and proud.

Peace be upon a people who taught the world the
meaning of patience, dignity, and resilience.

Peace be upon the mothers who buried the remains of
their children on street corners—and still chose to keep
living.

Peace be upon the fathers whose eyes wept for the first
time—and oh, what a brutal first time it was.

Peace be upon the wounded, tending to their own
wounds with the soothing remembrance of Allah, the
Almighty.

Peace be upon our noble martyrs, precious and beloved.

Peace be upon our free, glorious prisoners who are
charting the path to freedom.

Peace be upon the sleepless, exhausted doctors—the
architects of miracles.

Peace be upon those who pull the living from beneath
the ruins, from the darkness of rubble to the light of afar
where relief is within reach.

Peace be upon the teacher who truly understands the
command of god to "Read."

Peace be upon you, a people purified through your
patience.

To you, the free people across the world, the rebels, the
defiant, the unwavering—peace be upon you and my
deepest respect.

I write to you from a cold place, hoping my words may
carry a little warmth amid the tragedies, the suffering and the unimaginable stories I witness here.

Still, I write with full certainty that we will all be freed
from this cruel injustice.

And I believe, with all my heart that I will meet you soon
as a free woman—God willing.

From me—a granddaughter of the Nakba—to you, the
generation of return and the makers of freedom. Accept my greetings and reverence.

Leqaa Korda
Daughter of Gaza, Granddaughter of Nakba survivors from Yafa
June 4, 2025
Prairieland Detention Center

You can donate to Leqaa's legal fees here: chuffed.org/project/freele…

To learn more about the Prairieland Defendants and how the struggle to abolish ICE and borders intersects with the struggle to liberate Palestine: dfwsupportcommittee.wordpress.com