Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, from afar, well transmitted on Friday morning on social networks a video where he takes tasks and sermons, in his cell, the prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader imprisoned since 2002.
In these images, published in his X account, the Minister of National Security and two other people, including a penitentiary guard, stands in front of Marwan Barghouti and surround him in a corner of his cell.
“You will not defeat us. Who hurts the people of Israel, who kills the children, who kills women (…), we will erase them,” said the minister in Hebrew.
This elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and one of Fatah’s leaders tries to speak, but the minister interrupts him: “No, you have to know, throughout history.”
“This morning (Friday), I read that several senior authority officials (Palestine) did not love what I told the boss terrorist Marwan Bargouti, that his name is erased. So I will repeat it again and again without apologizing: who attacks the people of Israel, who kills our children, who kills our women, will be erased. Itamar Ben Gvir, in a comment to the videos.
Mahmoud Abbas potential
Marwan Barghouti, former Fatah manager who defends a political resolution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been imprisoned since 2002 by Israel. He is cited regularly as a possible successor of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, despite his arrest.
Nicknamed “La Mandela Palestina” by its followers, which has become an emblematic figure of the Palestinian cause, was sentenced to life imprisonment for its role in several antiisraeli attacks during the second intifada (“uprising” in Arabic).
The video transmitted in X does not specify the name of the prison where Marwan Barghouti stops. But according to a member of the Minister’s entourage, questioned by AFP and who requested anonymity, the meeting took place “by chance” in Ganot prison, during an inspection visit to Itamar Ben Gvir. This source did not specify on what date it was filmed.
“My father has lost a lot of weight”
In an interview filmed with AFP, the prisoner’s son, Arab Barghouti, said he was “shocked” by this sequence, punishes “the arrogance” of the Israeli government, for whom “international law and humanitarian law mean nothing.”
“No family member has seen my father for more than two years. Personally, I had not seen it in three years. (…) My father has lost a lot of weight and seems old. We are really worried and fear for his life and his protection in the light of the scenes we have seen,” he said.
“The occupation policy is very clear. They want to show the Palestinian people that they are the strongest” by “insulting their leader,” Arab Barghouti accused. “But (…) my father was standing in front of oppression in a small cell, handcuffed, exhausted and visibly tired, but standing with dignity.”
Although he has already been “subject to unimaginable things in the last two years (…), they will not break their image (…) because they represent the Palestinian people and the Palestinian prisoners (…),” he concluded.
The Palestinian authority denounces “an unprecedented provocation”
In a statement transmitted by the Wafa Palestinian news agency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority denounced “an unprecedented provocation” and described the incident of “organized state terrorism.”
For the Palestinian authority, Minister Ben Gvir “assaulted” the Barghouti cell.
The UN representation of the Palestinian authority denounced “extremely hard humanitarian conditions” in which Marwan Barghouti is celebrated.
Hamas, through the voice of Izzat Al-Risheq, a member of the political office of the Islamist movement, expressed his “solidarity with the brother and leader Marwan Barghouti.” He denounced the “savagery” of Minister Ben Gvir, faced with a “prisoner leader, handcuffed and isolated in a lonely cell, barely capable of standing.”
Source: BFM TV
