https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...uards-son-says

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Arab Barghouti said his 66-year-old father was assaulted by eight guards on 14 September as he was being transferred between Ganot and Megiddo prisons.


Barghouti has something of the Mandela status for Palestinians.

He was kidnapped by Israel from detention by the Palestinian Authority in 2002, and imprisoned on what many external observers consider trumped up charges in a military court. He is Fatah, not Hamas.

He is still the most popular and unifying figure in Palestine and should be a major player in developing a genuine peace process and creating a future Palestinian state.

For that reason the Israelis will not release him, and continue to hold him in solitary confinement when they are not beating him up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Barghouti