Sidqi al-Maqt
After 27 years of captivity and in an atmosphere of exceptional festivity , the town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights has embraced its captive son Sidqy al-Maqt.
Majdal Shams had organized a national festival which was attended by crowds from all the Golan Heights’ villages and in the presence of a large number of liberated prisoners and members of the Association of Arab prisoners.
The administration of Israeli Prisons has intended to release the captive al- Maqt at five o’clock in the morning from al-Gilboa Shatta prison fearing that he will get a terrific reception befitting a hero like him . But the Israeli authorities did not succeed in this plan because our people in the Golan Heights had prepared a special celebration befitting Sidky al-Maqt.
At the reception in August, 2012, al-Maqt delivered a speech through which he greeted the crowds , hoisting the pictures of his two comrades, the martyr Hayel Abu Zeid and the martyr Seitan al-weli. Sidqi al-Maqt also telegraphed his greetings to his fellow prisoners in the Israeli jails , wishing that they will get their freedom soon .
The Syrian prisoner Sidqi Suleiman al-Maqt was born in April 16, 1967 in the town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. He finished his primary school in the village , while he completed his preparatory and secondary schools in Masada village.
Sidqi al-Maqt with the participation of group of his comrades such as Medhat Saleh, the martyr Seitan al-Weli , the martyr Hayel Bouzid and his comrades Asim al-Weli and Bishr al-Maqt, had established ” The Secret Resistance Movement “. Sidqi and his comrades had participated in all the resistance’s operations , where they were able to monitor the Israeli military posts scattered in the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights. In addition, al-Maqt had participated with many of his comrades in bombing the Israeli camp near the village of Buqata .
On the night of 23.08.1985 and after 12 days of the arresting of his brother Bishr al-Maqt , Sidqi was arrested by the Israeli military authorities on the charge of resisting the occupation . On the twentieth of May 1986, the Israeli Military Court in Allad city had sentenced unfair judgment against Sidqi and he spent 27 years in the Israeli jails.
During his trial in the Israeli court, Sidqi and his comrades refused to stand to the military judge and they reject to confess the legitimacy of this injustice trial .
In his speech in front of the lawyers and the military court judge , Sidqi al-Maqt said : “You occupied my land , and it is my right to defend it and resist you , I do not admit the legitimacy of your court.”
Sidqi al-Maqt and nine of his comrades were expelled outside the court because they sang the Syrian Arab anthem ” Homata al-Deyar.”
During the years of his captivity , al-Maqt participated in many activities concerning the human rights of the captives in the Israeli prisons . Al-Maqt was considered one of the symbols of the national movement of the prisoners in the Israeli jails.
M.Wassouf