Khiam Rehabilitation Center (Lebanon)

Activities

• Khiam is active in lobbying the United Nations, submitting statements to the UN Human Rights Council criticizing Israel.
• Claims to oppose torture, with links to prominent international anti-torture NGOs and peace images of doves on its website. Many of its campaigns closely parallel Hezbollah objectives.
• In August 2025, Khiam held a press conference in “tribute to the symbol of freedom, the fighter George Ibrahim Abdallah.” Abdallah was convicted and sentenced by a French court to life in prison for “complicity in the assassinations” of Charles R. Ray in 1982, a US military attaché serving in Paris, and Yacov Bar-Simantov, a second counsellor at the Israeli embassy in Paris. He was released in July 2025.
  • In July 2025, Khiam met with Abdallah and presented him with a plaque and a book about his case and the “journey of our struggle locally and internationally.”
• In July 2025, Khiam Secretary General Mohammad Safa laid a “wreath on the tombstone of Palestinian leader Ahmed Jibril on the fourth anniversary of his martyrdom.” Jibril was the “leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command.”
• In February 2025, Khiam was a signatory on a statement calling for “Prosecuting Israeli war criminals for their war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank and other areas.”
• In February 2025, Safa participated in a “tribute to the fighter leader Maher Al-Yemani.”
  • PFLP senior member and founder Maher Yamani, was a “member of the Central Committee and one of its most prominent military commanders” and “coordinated special operations…in particular the operation against an aircraft of the Israeli company El Al in July 1968 in Greece.”
• In November 2024, Khiam was a signatory on a statement “welcom[ing] the decision of the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for the Prime Minister of the apartheid occupation entity, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the former Minister of War, Yoav Galant.” According to the statement, “The publication of these memoranda reflects a growing international consensus on the need to hold the leaders of the occupation and apartheid entity accountable for war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide, and sends a clear message that the absolute immunity enjoyed by the leaders of the occupation for decades has ended…the organizations demand that the International Criminal Court question and prosecute all those who, through the supply of weapons, equipment or financing, support the policies of violence, genocide and famine carried out by Netanyahu and Galant, whether individuals, political leaders, economic institutions or heads of state.”
• In October 2024, Khiam Secretary General Mohammad Safa posted, “For the sake of a total national resistance, isn’t it time to form a joint operations room of the parties of the former National Resistance Front and the Islamic Resistance [i.e. Hezbollah] in order to confront the Israeli invasion in the south? It has become necessary , without a doubt , to launch a total national resistance and for the resistance not to be only the brave heroes of the Islamic Resistance. The public square is the answer and watching from the side is death and annihilation.”
• In October 2024, Safa posted on Facebook, “A student asked his teacher: What era are we in? He replied: It is the era of [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar and [Hezbollah leader Hasan] Nasrallah. The student continued his questions: What is the legend of the generations? It is Sinwar and Nasrallah.”
• In September 2024, Khiam co-organized a protest in Geneva at the United Nations “against the Israeli Holocaust in Lebanon, its south and Gaza.” At the protest, Safa “saluted the heroic resistance fighters in the south, Gaza and the West Bank.”
• In August 2024, Safa posted, “The great revolutionary leader, the martyr Abu Ali Mustafa [formerly PFLP General-Secretary], was an exceptional leader, not only in the Palestinian context, but also in the context of the Arab national liberation movement and the global revolutionary movement. On the anniversary of your martyrdom, you remain a [symbol of] brave Palestinian resistance, legendary steadfastness for the Palestinian people, and a chant for all revolutionaries, resistance fighters, and free people of the world.” Ali Mustafa served as the PFLP Secretary General.
• In December 2023, Khiam was a signatory on a statement “condemn[ing] all crimes which have been perpetrated by Israel apartheid in the Occupied Territories for the past 75 years, forming the root causes of the current atrocities and highly regret the failure of international law to protect the continuation of Israel international crimes within the past decades. We believe that the deadlock that the international community is facing in preventing Israel’s international crimes in Gaza, proves the ineffectiveness of the international institutions which are supposed to prevent large-scale bloodshed from taking place in the world.”
• In October 2021, Khiam signed a joint statement condemning the decision by the Israeli Ministry to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations. According to the statement, “This unprecedented designation is merely the latest escalation in Israel’s widespread and systematic institutionalized campaign that has aimed to silence and discredit any Palestinian individual or organization that dares seek accountability for Israel’s grave human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity…the international community, especially the European Union and its member states who are key supporters of and donors to Palestinian civil society, should ensure that banks and financial institutions in their jurisdiction are notified Israel’s designation of Palestinian organizations is unfounded and inapplicable.”
• In June 2021, Khiam was a signatory on a statement calling to “expel the apartheid state from the United Nations.” According to the statement, “the fundamental reason for the conditions in the whole of occupied Palestine is due to… the continuation of the policies of the usurping entity of Palestine in 1948, and the complicity of the dominant colonial states in the brutal capitalist system with the policies of the occupying state and apartheid.”
• In June 2021, Khiam was a signatory on a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Michael Lynk calling for him to “Reiterate the adopted numerous UN resolutions and reports that the people of Palestine are suffering from intentional discriminatory collective punishment, ethnic cleansing… occupation, racist and Apartheid policies.”
• In October 2020, Khiam was a signatory on a statement to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee that “The use of the so-called Israeli, Emirati, Bahraini, American peace agreement, as a pretext for this award is misleading…it is an agreement that ignores the rules of international law, consecrates Israeli settlement colonialism, and legitimizes an apartheid system built by Israeli occupation.”
• In September 2018, Khiam joined a campaign against the “racist practices and the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.” According to the campaign, “No one should practice anti-Semitism against the Jews, and in the same logic, no one should practice persecution and apartheid against the Palestinians.”
• The Khiam Center and FCLD published a joint document “Calling for the freedom of Samir al-Kantar…”. Kuntar, who murdered an Israeli family in a 1979 terror attack, is referred to as a “hostage in the Israeli prisons” following his “operation against occupied forces [sic] in Palestine.”
• Khiam Center’s celebration of Kuntar’s “liberation” included distributing candies and flowers outside its offices. His terrorist attack was labeled a “heroic act.”