Ben Gvir storms into Marwan Barghouti’s prison cell, threatens to kill him

Hebrew-language Channel 7 revealed on Thursday evening that the Israeli far-right Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, visited the leader of the Fatah movement, prisoner Marwan Barghouti, inside his prison cell in Ganot, and made direct death threats to him, saying: “Whoever kills our children or women, we will erase him.” You will not defeat us.” The incident provoked angry Palestinian reactions. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Information Office said in a statement that Ben Gvir’s assault on Barghouti inside his cell “reveals the mentality of revenge and incitement that drives the Israeli prison system.” Palestinian Deputy President Hussein Al-Sheikh described Ben Gvir’s threat as “the height of psychological, moral and physical terrorism practised against prisoners,” adding that what happened was “an […]