A released Palestinian detainee has revealed that Marwan Barghouti has been horrifically tortured by his Israeli captors. Barghouti, the political prisoner held for twenty-four years by the Israeli occupation, was recently honoured with a new mural in London.

Barghouti’s son Omar posted this morning to his social media this morning, in Arabic, that:

I woke up to a phone call from a released prisoner this morning. He told me, “Your father was physically abused. They broke his teeth and ribs, cut off part of his ear, and broke his fingers in stages for fun…

What do I do? Who do I talk to? Who can we turn to? We’re living with this nightmare every day… Oh God, have mercy on me. My father is 66 years old now. Oh God, where will he find the strength?”

In August, footage emerged showing an emaciated Barghouti, a shadow of his old self, being threatened by Israel’s fascist ‘security’ minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

As with most of the myriad examples of the terror state torturing, starving, beating and raping innocent Palestinians it has abducted, the ‘mainstream’ media here in the UK has decided to stay silent.

The UK’s ‘mainstream’ media has so far ignored the torture of Marwan Barghouti. It has also ignored seven British nationals on hunger strike in British prisons — some for more than 4 weeks. But somehow, it hasn’t ignored the rise of the Labubu.

So what is it? Are you simply out of touch with the world around you, or are you consciously enabling Israeli terrorism and the Starmer government’s authoritarianism through your silence?
#FreeMarwan

Featured image via the New Arab

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.