Palestinian Jihad holds a ceremony of publishing the book “A Gleam of  Light” in Damascus

Damascus, (ST) – The Palestinian Jihad Movement and the Mohjat Al-Quds Foundation for the Martyrs, Prisoners, and Wounded held a ceremony to launch the book “A Gleam of  Light”,  Mujahid Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi remembers), in the hall of the Graduates of Commercial Institutes Association in Damascus.

The book published by the Muhjat Al-Quds Foundation, by the writer Asri al-Fayyad, monitors and documents the struggle biography and the experience of the prisoner Bassam Al-Saadi, the most prominent leader of the jihad movement inside and outside the Israeli occupation detention centers. It consists of 11 chapters in 236 pages.

The representative of the Jihad movement and the official of the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) movement in Syria, Ismail Al-Sindawi pointed out in a speech that Bassam Al-Saadi is an exceptional leader, and an example of national unity and sacrifice for the Palestinian cause.

Al-Sindawi stressed that the issue of Palestinian prisoners remains a top priority, present and active in international institutions to expose the crimes of the Zionist occupation against them, and to release them.

Through a phone call, writer Asri al-Fayyad, from Jenin in the occupied West Bank stressed the importance of publishing and signing the book in Damascus- the stronghold of resistance .

During a reading of the book, the writer, Dr. Hassan Hamid said that the book is like a major document that talks about  Palestinian heroism and the steadfastness of these heroes, men, women, youth and children. He pointed out that the national and militant heroic prisoner’s march is an icon inside and outside the occupation detention centers that must be studied for generations and by the sons of the Arab nation, because it draws landmarks in patience, steadfastness, and defiance of the occupation.

A member of the Executive Office of the Union of Arab Writers, Al-Arqam Al-Zoubi indicated that the book is an educational document for everyone who wants to learn about the path of struggle and resistance in all its dimensions. He stressed the importance of converting it into a text, novel, or documentary film, in order to be more widespread.

For his part, the Director of the Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Foundation for Culture and Heritage, Muhammad Abu Jubara, said: “The book is distinguished under these circumstances, because it brings in resistance figures that we desperately need to look up to them ,act like them  and learn from them. He added that we will be united in confronting this one enemy for all of us, and this is what the march of the resistance fighter, Bassam Al-Saadi, reminds of.

Critic Ahmed Helal pointed out that the book is not only a documentation or history of the hero Bassam’s career, but rather a form of resistance that reconnects with the past, present and future.

During the ceremony, videos about the prisoner Bassam Al-Saadi were shown, and copies of the book were distributed to the audience.

Raghda Sawas