The 66-year-old, imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti was beaten unconscious while he was being transferred from Israel’s Ganot Prison to the Megiddo Prison on Sept. 14, according to five Palestinian detainees, who were released and deported to Egypt on Oct. 13, as part of the ceasefire negotiations.
In August, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited Barghouti in prison, where he showed Barghouti a photo of an electric chair, and told Barghouti that he deserved to be executed. On Oct. 15, Ben-Gvir released a statement denying any connection to the brutal beating, but declared that he was “proud that [Barghouti’s] situation has changed” and that “play time is over.”
