Lebanon’s Popular Democratic Party and Arab Socialist Labor Party: We Hold the Zionist Entity Fully Responsible for the Life of Leader Sa’adat

The following statement was issued by the Popular Democratic Party and the Arab Socialist Labor Party in Lebanon, in solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Sa’adat, alongside fellow leaders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, is being subjected to isolation, beatings, torture, starvation and denial of medical care — targeted for “slow assassination.” 

To the sons and daughters of our nation,
To the free people of the world,
To our comrades in the path and in resistance,

From the isolation cells in Megiddo prison, where the Zionist executioner attempts to break the will of a man the size of a homeland, we raise our voice loudly, in the name of the joint leadership of the Popular Democratic Party and the Arab Socialist Labor Party – Lebanon, to condemn the systematic torture and brutal isolation inflicted upon the national and internationalist leader, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the imprisoned comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, in a clear attempt to eliminate him physically and morally.

This aggression does not target an individual, but a symbol of Palestinian and Arab resistance, a mind and a heart in the battle for freedom that our people have waged for decades. The torture of comrade Sa’adat is torture of all resisters, and his isolation is a failed attempt to isolate the voice of truth in a time of complicity.

We hold the fascist Zionist entity—along with its imperialist sponsor, the United States, and the regimes involved in normalization—fully responsible for the life and safety of comrade Sa’adat. What is taking place is part of a war of extermination against a people being killed in Gaza, tortured in the West Bank, and pursued in exile.

The silence of the official world, the complicity of the nations, and the cowardice of the regimes will only make us hold tighter to the trench of resistance, until the last breath.

We direct our call to all the free people: in the nation, in the diaspora, and around the world — to trade unionists, intellectuals, students, and all forces of liberation:
Strengthen the resistance. Raise your voices for Ahmad Sa’adat and for all the prisoners. Confront the Zionist-imperialist machine of repression with full force.

Our battle is one of existence, dignity, and identity, and it will not end except with the liberation of all of Palestine, from the river to the sea, and the sweeping away of the settler-colonial project from our land.

Glory to Sa’adat, symbol of revolutionary defiance,
Freedom for the prisoners and detainees,
And victory to the struggling peoples.

Beirut – 10 May 2025