Israel’s reactionary nationwide security minister Itamar Ben Gvir released a video on Friday revealing him challenging the most prominent Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody in his jail cell.
Marwan Barghouti, a leading member of the Palestinian Fatah celebration, has actually invested more than 20 years behind bars after being sentenced for his function in anti-Israeli attacks in the early 2000s. In the clip released by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and 2 other people, consisting of a jail guard, surround Barghouti in a corner 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 states in Hebrew. Barghouti attempts to react however is disrupted by Ben Gvir, who states: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”
The video does not define where Barghouti is presently being held. Called by AFPsources near Ben Gvir stated the conference occurred “by chance” in Ganot jail in southern Israel throughout an examination go to by the minister, however they would not state when the video was shot.
“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 stated in the post accompanying the video on Friday early 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 is now in his sixties, was detained in 2002 by Israel and sentenced to life in 2004 on murder charges.
Israel considers him a “terrorist” and convicted him over his function in the 2nd intifada, or uprising, from 2000-2005.
He frequently tops viewpoint surveys of popular Palestinian leaders and is in some cases explained by his fans as the “Palestinian Mandela”In a declaration launched by the main Palestinian news company Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry knocked the fight as “an unprecedented provocation”
Reacting to the video in a post on X, the Palestinian objective to the United Nations stated Barghouti was “enduring extremely harsh humanitarian conditions in his solitary confinement cell”It included 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, revealed uniformity with Barghouti and stated “there is no meaning of savagery left that has not been embodied by” Ben Gvir.
Released – August 16, 2025 03:50 am IST