Jailed Palestinian leader Barghouti suffered rib fractures after assault by Israeli guards
Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, the most prominent Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody, has sustained rib fractures after being beaten by guards in Israeli prisons.
The Prisoners’ Media Office said Wednesday that Barghouti was beaten by Israeli prison guards while being transferred from Ramon Prison in southern part of the occupied Palestinian territories to Megiddo Prison in the north in mid-September.
The imprisoned leader lost consciousness and suffered a fracture in four ribs, it added.
The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society had earlier revealed that Barghouti was also attacked on September 9 last year while held in solitary confinement in the Israeli regime’s Megiddo Prison.
Back then, Barghouti suffered numerous injuries and bleeding in the right ear, which later turned into an infection as a result of medical negligence.
The 66-year-old, a senior leader of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group, is one of the most noted and popular figures in Palestinian politics.
He has been serving five life sentences in Israeli prisons since 2002 on charges related to the Second Intifada (Uprising), which began in 2000.
Palestinian prisoners have reported being held in tragic conditions, especially over the past two years of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
In multiple reports, prisoner rights groups and the United Nations have shed light on the systematic abuse being committed against the prisoners, including beatings, hunger, halt in visitations and medical negligence.
Last week, the regime and Gaza's Hamas resistance movement agreed to the first phase of a plan to bring a ceasefire to Gaza, release all Israeli captives remaining in the coastal sliver in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the entire Palestinian territory.
Barghouti was among the prisoners that the regime was supposed to free.
Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk recently said that the group insisted on the release of Barghouti and other high-profile figures and that it was in discussions with mediators.
Tel Aviv has rejected freeing high-profile prisoners, whose release Hamas has long sought.
Some experts say Barghouti could be a powerful rallying figure for Palestinians. A large number of Palestinians have said they viewed him as their own Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist who became his country’s first black president.
Many Palestinians view the thousands held by the regime as political prisoners or freedom fighters resisting decades of Israeli military occupation.
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