Lebanese Detainees and Syrian Prisoners in Idlib: A Thorn in the Side of the Transitional Administration That Must Be Extracted
Lebanese Detainees and Syrian Prisoners in Idlib: A Thorn in the Side of the Transitional Administration That Must Be Extracted

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July 17, 2025

Lebanese Detainees and Syrian Prisoners in Idlib: A Thorn in the Side of the Transitional Administration That Must Be Extracted

Lebanese Detainees and Syrian Prisoners in Idlib

A Thorn in the Side of the Transitional Administration That Must Be Extracted

News:

The issue of Syrian detainees in Lebanese prisons remains a sensitive point of tension between Beirut and Damascus, threatening to re-aggravate bilateral relations if the stalemate continues, especially after news of the Syrian government's intention to take escalatory measures, including closing border crossings, before Damascus rushed to deny it.

Despite this denial, the issue remains seriously on the Lebanese table, given its judicial and political sensitivity, and its connection to the rights of more than two thousand Syrian detainees, many of whom have not been tried for years, according to the "Al-Modon" website.

Comment:

It is not only the detainees in Roumieh prison who constitute an obstacle to the transitional administration today, but also the file of prisoners of opinion in Idlib prisons is a major obstacle that has not been addressed until now, especially with the rising voices of the families demanding the release of their sons, after seeing them distribute certificates of amnesty and forgiveness to those who killed, displaced and abused them over the years of the revolution!

Here, we give an example that may be a door to looking at the matter as it should be. When Bashar al-Assad assumed power in Syria by inheritance, he sat like a fool on a booby-trapped chair without knowing it. No sooner had hours passed since he sat down, than some countries began demanding files from him and calling on him to settle them, the most prominent of which was the file of the Muslim Brotherhood, who were abused by Hafez Assad and his criminal brother Rifaat in Tadmor prison.

This file constituted a major burden on the butcher Bashar for decades, and was among the reasons that contributed to the ignition of the revolution and its launch from its cradle, Daraa. The truth is that the options of the fleeing Assad were not many, and this file was like a rope that tightens around his neck from time to time.

Today, no one who has insight can deny that the revolution received support from sympathetic Lebanese and supportive Syrians, some of whom are now in Roumieh prison. So, be wary of betraying them or neglecting their cause.

As for the file of prisoners of opinion in Idlib, it alone has a long story, especially when considering the reasons for their detention and arrest, which - if we look into them - we find to be demands of right. They demanded the opening of the fronts, and if it were not for those demands, the fronts would not have been opened in the first place. The truth is that what we are in of good today is due, after the grace of God Almighty, to those demands, whether one likes it or not.

Why are these people being arrested? And for whose benefit are they kept in prisons?

Is it logical to treat those who killed, displaced, and abused well, and to meet the demands of the people of right with arrest and disappearance?!

Their demands expressed the voice of the revolutionary incubator. People, in their comings and goings, and in their councils, were saying that the leaders of the revolution - military and political - had become tools in the hands of countries, and slaves to their dollars.

As for the detainees today, their demands revolved around liberating the military decision of the revolution, and that the fronts should not be opened or closed by external orders. Is the owner of this position rewarded with imprisonment?!

Stranger than that, their homes were raided at critical hours and in terrifying ways, while their families see the "patting" that is enjoyed by those who displaced, abused, and killed, and even the polite manners during the bringing of the wanted thugs!

Isn't what we have mentioned a looming danger that may lead to an explosion that leaves nothing untouched?

The files of the detainees of Roumieh and Idlib are two thorns in the side of the revolution that must be uprooted, not ignored.

If the thorn is left, it causes inflammation, then unbearable pain.

So, take the initiative to solve it, and do not procrastinate as others did and fell into the trap.

These two files are among the most dangerous files that must be addressed, and the mistake that occurred must be corrected. Those who are in prisons are people of precedence and truthfulness. The man of truth is the one who sees the danger before it occurs and warns you about it. As for the one who laughs in your face while you fall, he is waiting for your fall to be complete to stab you in the back.

﴿Indeed in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart﴾

Written for the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

Abdo al-Dalli

Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Syria

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Turkey and Arab Regimes Asked Hamas to Lay Down Their Weapons

Turkey and Arab Regimes Asked Hamas to Lay Down Their Weapons

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News:

The high-level United Nations international conference entitled "Finding a Peaceful Solution to the Palestinian Issue and Implementing the Two-State Solution" was held in New York on July 29 and 30, led by France and Saudi Arabia. Following the conference, which aimed to recognize Palestine as a state and end the war in Gaza, a joint declaration was signed. In addition to the European Union and the League of Arab States, Turkey also signed the declaration along with 17 other countries. The declaration, which consisted of 42 articles and an annex, condemned Operation Al-Aqsa Flood carried out by Hamas. The participating countries called on Hamas to lay down its weapons and demanded that it hand over its administration to the Mahmoud Abbas regime. (Agencies, July 31, 2025).

Comment:

Considering the countries running the conference, the presence of America is clearly evident, and despite not having the authority or influence to make decisions, the Saudi regime, its servant, accompanying France is the clearest evidence of this.

In this regard, French President Emmanuel Macron stated on July 24 that France would officially recognize the Palestinian state in September, and would be the first G7 country to do so. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barreau held a press conference at the conference, announcing the goals of the New York Declaration. In fact, in the statement issued after the conference, the massacres of the Jewish entity were condemned without taking any punitive decision against it, and Hamas was asked to disarm and hand over the administration of Gaza to Mahmoud Abbas.

In the new Middle East strategy that America seeks to implement based on the Abraham Accords, the Salman regime represents the spearhead. Normalization with the Jewish entity will begin after the war, with Saudi Arabia; then other countries will follow, and this wave will turn into a strategic alliance extending from North Africa to Pakistan. The Jewish entity will also receive a security guarantee as an important part of this alliance; then America will use this alliance as fuel in its conflict against China and Russia, and to include Europe completely under its wings, and of course, against the possibility of establishing the Caliphate.

The obstacle to this plan currently is the war in Gaza and then the anger of the Ummah, which is increasing and is about to explode. Therefore, the United States preferred that the European Union, the Arab regimes, and Turkey take the initiative in the New York Declaration. Thinking that accepting the decisions contained in the declaration would be easier.

As for the Arab regimes and Turkey, their mission is to please the United States, protect the Jewish entity, and in return for this obedience, protect themselves from the anger of their peoples, and live a humiliating life with the crumbs of cheap power until they are thrown away or afflicted with the torment of the afterlife. Turkey's reservation on the declaration, on the condition that the so-called two-state solution plan is implemented, is only an attempt to cover up the real goal of the declaration and mislead Muslims, and it has no real value.

In conclusion, the path to liberating Gaza and all of Palestine is not through a fictitious state in which Jews live. The Islamic solution for Palestine is the rule of Islam in the usurped land, which is to fight the usurper, and to mobilize the armies of Muslims to uproot the Jews from the blessed land. The permanent and radical solution is to establish the Rightly Guided Caliphate and protect the blessed land of Isra and Mi'raj with the shield of the Caliphate. God willing, those days are not far away.

The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "The Hour will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims will kill them, until the Jew hides behind the stone and the tree, and the stone or the tree says: O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, so come and kill him." (Narrated by Muslim)

Written for the Central Media Office radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Muhammad Amin Yildirim

What America Wants is Official Recognition of the Jewish Entity, Even if Weapons Remain

What America Wants is Official Recognition of the Jewish Entity, Even if Weapons Remain

The News:

Most of the political and security news in Lebanon revolves around the issue of weapons targeting the Jewish entity, without any other weapons, and focusing on it by most political analysts and journalists.

Comment:

America is asking for the weapons that fought the Jews to be handed over to the Lebanese army, and it does not care about any weapons that remain in the hands of all the people, which can be used internally when it finds an interest in doing so, or between Muslims in neighboring countries.

America, the greatest enemy of us Muslims, said it frankly, even rudely, when its envoy Barack stated from Lebanon that the weapon that must be handed over to the Lebanese state is the weapon that can be used against the Jewish entity occupying blessed Palestine, and not any other individual or medium weapon because this does not harm the Jewish entity, but rather serves it and serves America and the entire West in inciting it to fight between Muslims under the pretext of takfiris, extremists, reactionaries, or backward people, or other descriptions that they fuel among Muslims under the pretext of sectarianism, nationalism, or ethnicity, or even between Muslims and others who have lived with us for hundreds of years and found nothing from us but the preservation of honor, money, and life, and that we were applying the laws to them as we apply them to ourselves, they have what we have and they are obligated to do what we are obligated to do. For the Sharia ruling is the basis of governance for Muslims, whether among themselves, or between them and other subjects of the state.

As long as our greatest enemy, America, wants to destroy or neutralize the weapon that harms the Jewish entity, then why focus on that among politicians and media professionals?!

Why are the most important topics raised in the media and in the Council of Ministers, at the request of the American enemy, without examining them in depth and clarifying the extent of their danger to the nation, the most dangerous of which is the demarcation of the land borders with the Jewish entity, that is, the official recognition of this occupying entity, in a way that no one after that has the right to carry weapons, any weapons, for the sake of Palestine, which is the property of all Muslims and not only the people of Palestine, as they try to convince us as if it belongs only to the people of Palestine?!

The danger lies in presenting this matter sometimes under the title of peace, sometimes under the title of reconciliation, and at other times under the title of security in the region, or under the title of economic, tourism and political prosperity, and the prosperity that they promise Muslims in the event of recognition of this monstrous entity!

America knows very well that Muslims can never be satisfied with recognizing the Jewish entity, and that is why you see it creeping into them through other things to distract them from the most important fateful matter. Yes, America wants us to focus on the issue of weapons, but it knows that weapons, no matter how powerful, will not work and cannot be used against the Jewish entity if official Lebanon recognizes it by demarcating the borders with it, and thus recognizes it and its right to the land of blessed Palestine, under the pretext of the Muslim rulers and the Palestinian Authority.

This recognition of the Jewish entity is a betrayal of God, His Messenger, and the believers, and of all the blood of the martyrs that has been shed and continues to be shed for the liberation of Palestine, and despite all that, we still hope for good in our nation, some of whom are fighting in Gaza, Hashim, and in Palestine, and they say to us with their blood: We will never recognize the Jewish entity, even if it costs us all this and more... So, do we accept in Lebanon to recognize the Jewish entity, no matter how difficult the circumstances are?! Do we accept to demarcate the borders with it, that is, to recognize it, even if the weapons are left with us?! It is the question that we must answer before it is too late.

Written for the Central Media Office Radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir

Dr. Muhammad Jaber

Head of the Central Communications Committee of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Wilayah of Lebanon