![Palestinian Abdullah Barghouti, a leading commander for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas in the West Bank, is escorted by Israeli police into the Magistrate's Court for a hearing in Jerusalem on June 20, 2012. [MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GettyImages-146575332.jpg)
Hamas has warned of a “slow-motion execution” being carried out on its senior Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation jails. In a press statement received by Quds Press on Tuesday, senior Hamas leader Abdulrahman Shedeed said that the treatment of their brave prisoners — including torture, ill-treatment and the denial of even the most basic rights — is a stain on humanity and a disgrace for every self-proclaimed human-rights defender. Shedeed specifically condemned the repeated, brutal beatings and deliberate ill-treatment of the imprisoned leader Abdullah al-Barghouti in Gilboa prison, calling it a politically directed attempt at slow execution. He argued that this is a direct echo of threats made by extremist far-right figure Ben Gvir, who has spoken of executing prisoners and targeting their […]
