The Palestinian chief held in solitary confinement reportedly suffers quite a few accidents within the September 9 assault.
Palestinian prisoner assist teams have accused Israel of “brutally attacking” Marwan Barghouti, probably the most outstanding Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody, leaving him with quite a few accidents.
In a joint assertion on Monday, the Fee for Detainees and Former Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society stated Monday that Barghouti was attacked on September 9 whereas being held in solitary confinement in Israel’s Megiddo jail.
Because of the assault, Barghouti, referred to as the “Palestinian Nelson Mandela” by his followers, suffered quite a few accidents, primarily to his higher physique, in keeping with the assertion.
The Fatah politician, who has been in jail for greater than 20 years, suffered accidents to his head, ears, ribs, proper arm and again, in keeping with the assertion, which cites a lawyer who was solely in a position to collect the data after months of being detained. Contacting prisoners is prohibited.
Barghouti suffered a hemorrhage in his proper ear, which later changed into an an infection because of medical negligence, in keeping with the assertion.
The 64-year-old man was reportedly attacked together with a gaggle of different Palestinian detainees.
The fee stated Palestinians are being held in “tragic situations,” particularly over the previous yr throughout the battle in Gaza.
Intensified arrests
Israel has stepped up arrests within the occupied West Financial institution since launching an ongoing lethal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip in October final yr. It has additionally intensified its mistreatment of detained Palestinian prisoners.
Prisoner rights teams and the United Nations have make clear the systematic abuses dedicated towards prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails, together with beatings, hunger, interruption of visits and medical neglect.
In its assertion, the fee stated it perceives the assaults on Barghouti and different detained Palestinian figures as an try and “assassinate” them.
Barghouti is extraordinarily in style amongst Palestinians and polls counsel he might win the Palestinian presidency.
It has been the goal of at the least two different earlier assaults, in keeping with the assertion.
Barghouti was a outstanding chief within the first and second Intifadas (uprisings) and was convicted by an Israeli court docket of 5 counts of homicide in 2004, two years after his imprisonment.
Israel accused Barghouti of founding the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a coalition of Palestinian armed teams aligned with Fatah, within the early 2000s – which he denied – and charged him with 26 counts of homicide and tried of homicide attributed to the brigades.
An Israeli court docket sentenced him to 5 cumulative life sentences, plus 40 years for tried homicide and membership in a “terrorist” group.
Barghouti provided no protection and refused to acknowledge the authority of the Israeli court docket.
In response to Addameer, a Palestinian rights and prisoners assist group, greater than 10,000 Palestinians are at present held in Israeli jails and at the least 3,390 of them are beneath administrative detention, a extensively criticized apply during which they’re held with out costs or trial.
