Freedom, 1980 by Sliman Mansour and the Palestinian Sunbird (Coming Soon)

Freedom, 1980 by Sliman Mansour and the Palestinian Sunbird: The suffering of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is a long-standing and deeply painful aspect of life under occupation. Since 1967, Israel has imprisoned over one million Palestinians, many held under administrative detention without charge or trial and subjected to harsh interrogation methods, solitary confinement, and physical and psychological torture. Sliman Mansour’s 1980 painting Freedom, alongside the image of the Palestinian Sunbird—a symbol of endurance and rootedness—captures this collective pain and the enduring national longing for liberation, standing as a powerful emblem of prisoners’ resilience and the broader Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination.