{"id":53376,"date":"2025-10-16T17:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/marwan-barghoutis-son-says-family-fears-for-his-life-in-israeli-prison\/16\/10\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:56:49","slug":"marwan-barghoutis-son-says-family-fears-for-his-life-in-israeli-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/marwan-barghoutis-son-says-family-fears-for-his-life-in-israeli-prison\/16\/10\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Marwan Barghouti\u2019s son says family fears for his life in Israeli prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is taken away under escort September 29, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel [File: Uriel Sinai\/Getty Images]<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The son of prominent Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti says he fears for his father\u2019s life in Israeli prison amid witness reports that he was beaten by guards last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an interview with Al Jazeera on Thursday, Arab Barghouti accused Israel of targeting his father because he is a unifying figure among Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe do fear for my father\u2019s life,\u201d Arab said from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this week, the family told media outlets that they had received testimonies from Palestinian detainees released as part of <span>the Gaza ceasefire deal<\/span> that Barghouti was beaten by guards in mid-September as he was being transferred between two Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Arab told Al Jazeera that the attack is the fourth time since Israel\u2019s war on Gaza began in October 2023 that his father has been <span>assaulted in Israeli detention<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThey are targeting him,\u201d said Arab, explaining that Israel sees his father as \u201ca danger\u201d because of his ability to bring Palestinians together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A prominent member of Fatah, the Palestinian political faction that dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs limited parts of the occupied West Bank, Barghouti has been in Israeli prison since the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is serving five life sentences plus 40 years on murder and attempted murder charges, which he has consistently denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcpsr.org\/en\/node\/997\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:poll from May;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">poll from May<\/a> found that Barghouti was the most popular Palestinian leader, garnering more support than Hamas official Khaled Meshaal and PA President Mahmoud Abbas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Palestinians had called for Barghouti to be released as part of the <span>recent Gaza ceasefire agreement<\/span> between Israel and Hamas, but Israel refused to free him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As part of the deal, Israel released 250 Palestinians serving life sentences, several of whom were sent into exile abroad. About 1,700 Palestinians who were detained in Gaza and transferred to Israeli detention facilities during the Gaza war were also freed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the released prisoners, Mohammad al-Ardah, told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli forces would carry out \u201cbarbaric\u201d raids in the prisons each week, severely beating Palestinian detainees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe latest reports we heard about the great leader Marwan Barghouti is that they broke three of his ribs,\u201d al-Ardah said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Israeli authorities have denied that Barghouti was beaten in September, with the Israel Prison Service telling BBC News that it \u201coperates in accordance with the law, while ensuring the safety and health of all inmates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But Arab, Barghouti\u2019s son, said the Israeli authorities have no credibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He also pointed to an August video that showed far-right Israeli National Security Minister <span>Itamar Ben-Gvir threatening Barghouti<\/span> in prison, as evidence that the Israeli government is trying to \u201csilence\u201d his father\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe know that [Ben-Gvir] showed him an electric chair on his phone and he told him, \u2018This is your fate\u2019 \u2026 If that\u2019s not a threat to his life, I don\u2019t know what is,\u201d Arab told Al Jazeera on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, Barghouti\u2019s son said the family has repeatedly asked Israel to allow international lawyers and the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit his father in prison, but their requests have been denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThey see him as a danger \u2026 because he wants to bring stability, he wants to end the cycle of violence. He wants a unifying Palestinian vision that is accepted by everyone, and the international community, as well,\u201d Arab said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThey [Israel] know what my father represents, and they don\u2019t want that. They don\u2019t want a partner for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/marwan-barghouti-son-says-family-213039895.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is taken away under escort September 29, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel [File: Uriel Sinai\/Getty Images] The son<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/marwan-barghoutis-son-says-family-fears-for-his-life-in-israeli-prison\/16\/10\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/al_jazeera_289\/c5dcbda7fc01d8d5ab73e11fe78e4d1a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}