Hamas official slams Ben-Gvir’s visit to Barghouti’s jail cell
Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq has condemned far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the jail cell of long-imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. “There is no longer any meaning to brutality except in the form of one of the leaders of this inhumane entity,” he wrote on Telegram. “A Zionist minister gathers his army, his guards, and the blood of his state and stands before a captive leader, shackled and isolated in solitary confinement, barely able to stand, and addresses him, saying: ‘You will not triumph over us!’” al-Risheq said. “If Ben-Gvir had been victorious in Gaza, he would not have said what he said. But this is the arrogance of a criminal who failed to achieve his goal, whose prestige was defeated, and whose reputation was tarnished by the shame of the ages,” he said.