Marwan Barghouti secretly removed from prisoner list by Israel, source says https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/marwan-barghouti-will-not-be-released-gaza-deal-says-israeli-spokesperson
Source close to prominent Palestinian prisoner tells MEE Witkoff and mediators had OKed his release before Israeli prime minister's office unilaterally removed name last minute.
Barghouti, who is the most popular Palestinian political figure according to polls, was one of the most valuable names to potentially be traded for the 48 Israeli captives in Gaza.
A source close to Barghouti and his family told MEE that last night mediators including US envoy Steve Witkoff signed off on a prisoner list that included Barghouti.
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VBDIaaryG8 Israeli political leaders have not changed their policy aim to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their remaining territory. “Nothing has changed in the dehumanization and the attitude of this particular Israeli government and its belief that it has the power to wipe out Palestine as a nation, as a people and as a country,” Pappé’s latest book is titled Israel on the Brink: And the Eight Revolutions That Could Lead to Decolonization and Coexistence including:
Relocating the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees to the center of the future vision;
Establishing a new definition for the Jewish collective in historical Palestine;
Finalizing a plan for the future of the Jewish settlements built in the West Bank since 1967; and
Creating a new strategy for a united Palestinian national movement.
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