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Fatah says Israel
wants to slowly finish off Barghuti -
RAMALLAH - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement accused Israel of wanting to “slowly liquidate” its jailed West Bank leader Marwan Barghuti, in a statement received by AFP on Wednesday. “Israel could not
directly assassinate him and is now trying to slowly liquidate him,” the
statement charged, warning Israel that ”its crimes” would not go
unpunished.
Barghuti,
44, narrowly escaped death in August 2001 when two Israeli missiles were
fired at a convoy of cars he was travelling in, although Israel said it
was trying to kill one of his entourage and not the Fatah chief himself. The
Fatah statement said Barghuti’s detention in solitary confinement was
“threatening his life”, stressing his health “is deteriorating”. “Based
on our information, the state of our brother’s health, the freedom
fighter and Fatah high council secretary general Marwan Barghuti, is
deteriorating,” the statement said. His
wife Fadwa told AFP her husband’s “lawyer visited him two days ago and
informed me that he is suffering from chest pains and has difficulties
breathing, and that the prison authorities had not sent for a doctor.” “He’s
in an underground room no larger than three square metres and only two
metres (6.6 feet) high, without any air or light,” she said. Barghuti,
seen by many as the inspiration behind the Palestinian uprising and as a
possible successor to Arafat, was arrested by the Israeli army in April
2002 and brought before an Israeli court in September. He
faces various counts of murder and heading a terrorist organisation, and
was moved to a prison in southern Israel and placed in solitary
confinement in early January. One
of his lawyers then charged that Barghuti’s life was threatened in the
Ramla prison which he said is known for its harsh detention conditions.
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