Marwan Barghouti, a number one member of the Palestinian Fatah celebration, has spent greater than 20 years behind bars after being sentenced for his function in anti-Israeli assaults within the early 2000s. In the clip printed by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two different people, together with a jail guard, encompass Barghouti in a nook of his cell.
“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women… we will erase them,” Ben Gvir says in Hebrew. Barghouti tries to reply however is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
The video doesn’t specify the place Barghouti is at the moment being held. Contacted by AFP, sources near Ben Gvir mentioned the assembly occurred “by chance” in Ganot jail in southern Israel throughout an inspection go to by the minister, however they might not say when the footage was filmed.
“This morning I read that various ‘senior officials’ in the Palestinian Authority didn’t quite like what I said to arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti — may his name be erased,” Ben Gvir mentioned within the publish accompanying the video on Friday morning.
“So I will repeat it again and again, without apology: whoever messes with the people of Israel, whoever murders our children, whoever murders our women — we will wipe them out. With God’s help.” Barghouti, who’s now in his sixties, was arrested in 2002 by Israel and sentenced to life in 2004 on homicide expenses.
Israel considers him a “terrorist” and convicted him over his function within the second intifada, or rebellion, from 2000-2005.
He typically tops opinion polls of common Palestinian leaders and is typically described by his supporters because the “Palestinian Mandela”. In an announcement launched by the official Palestinian information company Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s international ministry denounced the confrontation as “an unprecedented provocation”.
Responding to the video in a publish on X, the Palestinian mission to the United Nations mentioned Barghouti was “enduring extremely harsh humanitarian conditions in his solitary confinement cell”. It added that he had “lost more than half his weight due to deliberate medical neglect and mistreatment”.
“At the same time, extremist Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir continues to directly threaten him in an attempt to break his will and resilience.”
Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, expressed solidarity with Barghouti and mentioned “there is no meaning of savagery left that has not been embodied by” Ben Gvir.
Published – August 16, 2025 03:50 am IST
