YEMEN Press Agency

Israeli occupation moves Marwan Barghouti into solitary confinement

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Feb. 15 (YPA) – Israeli Channel “13” reported on Wednesday that the administration of Zionist occupation prisons transferred the prominent leader in the “Fatah” movement, the prisoner Marwan Barghouti, to solitary confinement.

According to the channel, the prison administration “took measures against Barghouti, claiming that he was pushing towards escalating resistance in the West Bank.

It explained that Barghouti was “transferred from Ofer prison to solitary confinement in another prison, after “receiving information that Barghouti was pushing towards escalating resistance actions against the occupation in the West Bank.

The Israeli authorities alleged that “Barghouti is working through several channels to ignite a third uprising in the West Bank, due to the continuation of Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.”

Prisoner Marwan Barghouti is a political and prominent leader in the “Fatah” movement, who participated in the first uprising in 1987, and was one of the prominent faces of the second uprising in 2000.

Barghouti was arrested by Israeli forces in 2002 and sentenced to five life sentences.

 

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