{"id":313706,"date":"2025-08-15T06:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313706"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:57:25","slug":"israeli-minister-to-barghouti-we-will-obliterate-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=313706","title":{"rendered":"Israeli minister to Barghouti: &#8216;We will obliterate&#8217; Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Aug 15, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Far-right Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has aggressively confronted Marwan Barghouti, a prominent Palestinian political leader imprisoned since 2002, in his solitary confinement cell at Ganot prison in a highly condemnable move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barghouti\u00a0is widely regarded as a unifying figure within the Palestinian community. He was visibly distressed during the encounter\u00a0monitored by guards and cameras, Drop Site reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>During the confrontation, Ben Gvir blatantly said to Barghouti: \u201cWhoever messes with the people of Israel, whoever murders our children, whoever murders our women, we will obliterate them. You will not defeat us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Surrounded by guards and cameras, Israel\u2019s extremist minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the solitary confinement cell of Marwan Barghouti \u2014 the most popular Palestinian political leader and a unifying national figure, imprisoned since 2002 \u2014 in \u201cGanot\u201d prison, to threaten\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bnbik6IJaP\">https:\/\/t.co\/Bnbik6IJaP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53p5lIJKAz\">pic.twitter.com\/53p5lIJKAz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DropSiteNews\/status\/1956084100756050099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The intimidating message has drawn immediate condemnation from Palestinian rights advocates and political officials, who view it as a direct threat to Barghouti\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Raed Abu al-Hummus, head of the Palestinian Prisoners\u2019 and Ex-Prisoners\u2019 Affairs Commission, condemned Ben Gvir\u2019s actions, characterizing them as a public threat that reflects the dangerous intentions of a minister known for his history of inciting violence against Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBen Gvir has tortured prisoners in front of cameras, and he has many previous offenses filled with hatred and racism. For him to dare to attack a leader of the stature of Abu al-Qassam is a clear violation of all red lines, and we are concerned for his life,&#8221; Abu al-Hummus stated.<\/p>\n<p>He called for urgent action from both Palestinians and international bodies to safeguard Barghouti.<\/p>\n<p>Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences for his role in Palestinian resistance efforts, has remained a significant figure in Palestinian politics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his imprisonment, he commands widespread support among Palestinians and is seen as a potential leader capable of unifying divided factions.<\/p>\n<p>His release has been a longstanding request from resistance groups and is perceived as a threat to the current leadership of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2024, senior officials from the Palestinian Authority, including Hussein al-Sheikh, the top liaison with Israel, indicated to mediators that they were not in favor of Barghouti\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>The family of Marwan Barghouti expressed grave concerns over his safety following the threat from Ben Gvir.<\/p>\n<p>They conveyed to Al Jazeera their fears that he could be executed in his cell as a result of the Israeli minister\u2019s aggressive stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also shocked by the changes in his facial features and the exhaustion and hunger he is experiencing,\u201d they emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Fadwa Barghouti, Marwan\u2019s wife and a well-known Palestinian lawyer and activist, shared her thoughts on social media, expressing her deep concern and emotional turmoil over Marwan&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s true \u2014 I didn\u2019t recognize you, nor could I make out your features. Maybe part of me doesn\u2019t want to acknowledge everything your face and body express, and what you and the other prisoners have endured,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>. Fadwa continued to affirm her husband\u2019s spirit and dedication to the Palestinian cause, stating, \u201cYou are of the people; wherever you are, you are among them, from them, part of them. Your fate is bound to theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As tensions continue to escalate, the implications of Ben Gvir&#8217;s threats against Barghouti and the broader context of Palestinian rights remain critical issues in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2025\/08\/15\/753106\/Israeli-minister-to-Barghouti---We-will-obliterate--Palestinians\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Security Minister Ben Gvir caught on camera intimidating and threatening shackled prominent Palestinian political prisoner <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":261962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313709,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313706\/revisions\/313709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}