The Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners and the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a joint statement: “The repression units in the prisons brutally attacked Barghouti in the solitary confinement cell on the ninth of last September, using various tools of oppression and beating.”
The incident occurred in Megiddo prison in the north Israel.
The two organizations obtained this information from the lawyer of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Authority, who was able to visit Barghouti Sunday after a break due to his being prevented from visiting for three months, according to what the Prisoner’s Club reported to Agence France-Presse.
According to the statement, the attack to which Barghouti was subjected caused “injuries to his body, ribs, and limbs, bleeding in his right ear, a wound in his right arm, and pain in his back.”
The name of Barghouti, a member of the Central Committee of the Fatah movement led by President Mahmoud Abbas, is among the names likely to be released if an agreement is reached between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Barghouti has been detained since 2002 on charges of murder Palestinian Intifada The second broke out in 2000 against Israel and continued until 2005.
He was sentenced in June 2004 to five life sentences.
Israel detains more than 9,000 Palestinians in its prisons, about 5,000 of whom were arrested after the October 7 attack, in addition to an unknown number of those arrested from… Gaza Strip.
