Marwan Barghouti’s son says family fears for his life in Israeli prison

Arab Barghouti tells Al Jazeera Israel wants to ‘silence’ his begetter amid reports Israeli guards bushed him past month.

The lad of salient Palestinian governmental person Marwan Barghouti says helium fears for his father’s beingness successful Israeli situation amid witnesser reports that helium was beaten by guards past month.

In an interrogation with Al Jazeera connected Thursday, Arab Barghouti accused Israel of targeting his begetter due to the fact that helium is simply a unifying fig among Palestinians.

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“We bash fearfulness for my father’s life,” Arab said from Ramallah successful the occupied West Bank.

Earlier this week, the household told media outlets that they had received testimonies from Palestinian detainees released arsenic portion of the Gaza ceasefire deal that Barghouti was beaten by guards successful mid-September arsenic helium was being transferred betwixt 2 Israeli prisons.

Arab told Al Jazeera that the onslaught is the 4th clip since Israel’s warfare connected Gaza began successful October 2023 that his begetter has been assaulted successful Israeli detention.

“They are targeting him,” said Arab, explaining that Israel sees his begetter arsenic “a danger” due to the fact that of his quality to bring Palestinians together.

A salient subordinate of Fatah, the Palestinian governmental faction that dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs constricted parts of the occupied West Bank, Barghouti has been successful Israeli situation since the aboriginal 2000s.

He is serving 5 beingness sentences positive 40 years connected execution and attempted execution charges, which helium has consistently denied.

A Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research poll from May recovered that Barghouti was the astir fashionable Palestinian leader, garnering much enactment than Hamas authoritative Khaled Meshaal and PA President Mahmoud Abbas.

Palestinians had called for Barghouti to beryllium released arsenic portion of the recent Gaza ceasefire agreement betwixt Israel and Hamas, but Israel refused to escaped him.

As portion of the deal, Israel released 250 Palestinians serving beingness sentences, respective of whom were sent into exile abroad. About 1,700 Palestinians who were detained successful Gaza and transferred to Israeli detention facilities during the Gaza warfare were besides freed.

One of the released prisoners, Mohammad al-Ardah, told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli forces would transportation retired “barbaric” raids successful the prisons each week, severely beating Palestinian detainees.

“The latest reports we heard astir the large person Marwan Barghouti is that they broke 3 of his ribs,” al-Ardah said.

The Israeli authorities person denied that Barghouti was beaten successful September, with the Israel Prison Service telling BBC News that it “operates successful accordance with the law, portion ensuring the information and wellness of each inmates”.

But Arab, Barghouti’s son, said the Israeli authorities person nary credibility.

He besides pointed to an August video that showed far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatening Barghouti successful prison, arsenic grounds that the Israeli authorities is trying to “silence” his father’s voice.

“We cognize that [Ben-Gvir] showed him an electrical seat connected his telephone and helium told him, ‘This is your fate’ … If that’s not a menace to his life, I don’t cognize what is,” Arab told Al Jazeera connected Thursday.

Meanwhile, Barghouti’s lad said the household has repeatedly asked Israel to let planetary lawyers and the International Committee of the Red Cross to sojourn his begetter successful prison, but their requests person been denied.

“They spot him arsenic a information … due to the fact that helium wants to bring stability, helium wants to extremity the rhythm of violence. He wants a unifying Palestinian imaginativeness that is accepted by everyone, and the planetary community, arsenic well,” Arab said.

“They [Israel] cognize what my begetter represents, and they don’t privation that. They don’t privation a spouse for peace.”