The Mahmoud Farajallah delegation was a delegation to Lebanon conducted in January 2026, comprised of members of Samidoun Belgium and the Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine. During the delegation, members participated in demonstrations for the freedom of Lebanese prisoners in Zionist jails, met with Palestinian and Lebanese political, social, cultural and educational organizations, and visited the Palestinian refugee camps, as well as the families of the prisoners. The delegation issued the following statement after the horrific Zionist bombing across Lebanon on 8 April 2026, hitting over 100 locations in 10 minutes, and taking the lives of over 300 martyrs while wounding over 1,000.
On Wednesday, April 8, just as the ceasefire in the Israeli-American war of aggression against Iran had been announced, Israel intensified its criminal strikes on Lebanon, destroying and killing indiscriminately. Within hours, hundreds of strikes took place, buildings and homes were destroyed, residents fled their homes, and the number of dead and wounded increased with each passing hour.
The Mahmoud Farajallah delegation, composed of activists from Samidoun Brussels and the Charleroi Platform for Palestine, traveled to Lebanon in January 2025. There, they met with numerous individuals and organizations, both Lebanese and Palestinian, all committed to liberation and against imperialist and colonialist offensives.
Among these individuals was Sheikh Sadiq Al-Nabulsi, whom the delegation met in Saida. During this meeting, the issue of Western domination in the region was discussed, as well as the need to overturn the hegemonic narrative that reinforces this domination and silences the legitimate aspirations of the region’s peoples. The Sheikh stated, “To win the war, you need to win the narrative,” and encouraged efforts to raise awareness and provide information about the struggles and suffering of the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples.
The Mahmoud Farajallah delegation mourns the martyrs and denounces the continued criminal Zionist aggression against the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples.
He also spoke of Hajj Muhammad Afif Al-Nabulsi, who was martyred in 2024, illustrating the responsibility of the living to honor the martyrs and their commitments.
Sheikh Sadiq Al-Nabulsi was martyred on Wednesday, April 8, in the Israeli bombing of the building where he worked and had received the delegation, in the city of Saida. The delegation mourns his death, and that of over 2,000 other Lebanese victims of Zionist massacres, and offers its respects and condolences.
Today, it is up to the living to continue the work, to tirelessly spread the narrative of liberation, and to honor the martyrs, each of the precious and important lives taken from their loved ones by the colonialist and imperialist machine.
Glory to the martyrs, may they guide the living on the path of justice and liberation. Support for the wounded and the refugees. Liberation for all prisoners.
(*) Mahmoud Farajallah was a young Palestinian refugee from Gaza, martyred in the closed detention center 127 bis in Brussels on October 7, 2025.
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