updated 08-15-2025 08:43 EDT
[contains link to a Middle East Eye video]

In the clip published by Ben Gvir on X, the minister and two other individuals, including a prison guard, surround Marwan Barghouti in a corner of his cell.

“You will not defeat us. Whoever harms the people of Israel, whoever kills children, whoever kills women … we will erase them,” #BenGvir says in Hebrew.

Barghouti tries to respond but is interrupted by Ben Gvir, who says: “No, you know this. And it’s been the case throughout history.”

[what a fu**ing coward, bullying a defenseless half-starved prisoner]

Israeli minister posts video online confronting Palestinian detainee in his prison cell – as it happened

Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts video showing him confronting Marwan Barghouti, who has spent more than 20 years in Israeli custody

^{Tom Ambrose (The Guardian)}