Zahraa Hassan Hammoud, the young daughter of the imprisoned Lebanese Hassan Hammoud, spoke on May 25, 2026 at Resistance and Liberation Day, calling for her father's freedom:
My father has been taken for a year and a half, yet it feels like a whole lifetime. My father isn't traveling, nor is he away by choice. My father is behind the bars of a brutal occupation. Held by an oppressive and criminal enemy. A year and a half, while I watch...
The world speaks of human rights, while my father and his fellow prisoners are stripped of their humanity every single day. What kind of justice sees a prisoner being tortured and remains silent? What kind of conscience allows the cause of the prisoners to go ignored?
Today's message is to His Excellency the President and the Prime Minister. Our prisoners are not just numbers in news bulletins. They are our sons, our kin, and our souls. We haven't heard a word or even a protest from you, nor a demand for the return of your people from the prisons of this deceptive usurper. Every day they spend in prison is a torment for entire families, waiting, fearing, and collapsing in silence. It is our right to contact them and be reassured. They must feel they have a people and a nation that won't forget them.
As for you, Father, no matter how long you are gone, you will remain present in my heart. My voice will remain a thorn in the side of tyrants and a salute to all prisoners. Freedom for you, Father, and for all the prisoners.
