Kaddoura Fares, head of the Commission, criticized in a statement the confinement applied against imprisoned Palestinian leaders, especially Marwan Barghouti, a well-known figure of the governmental Fatah movement.

Fares noted that Barghouti was transferred to Ramle prison, where he remains in solitary confinement.

“The repeated transfers of Commander Barghouti in solitary confinement (…) raise real fears for his life, especially since this is accompanied by direct and continuous incitement against him in the Israeli media,” he warned.

Considered one of the main leaders of the two Palestinian intifadas, Barghouti was arrested in 2002 and accused of leading a wave of attacks against Israel during the second popular uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Earlier 2024, Prisoners’ Club Director Abdul Zaghari warned that since last October 7, the IPS transferred to unknown locations the symbols of the Palestinian movement in prisons and representatives of the various factions in those centers.

Last week, that organization revealed that at least 245 Palestinians died in Israeli prisons since the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank in the 1967 war.

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