Israeli Right-wing Minister Uploads Provocational Video, Challenges Famous Palestinian Prisoners In Prison

Israeli National Security Minister with the right wing ideology, Itamar Ben Gvir. (Wikimedia Commons-DedaSasha)

JAKARTA - Israel's right-wing National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, challenged on a visit to Israel's most prominent Palestinian prisoner, Marwan Barghouti.

This was revealed in a video recording uploaded by Ben Gvir on his X account. The post shows the minister and two others, including prison guards, crowding Barghouti in the corner of his cell.

Barghouti is known to be a prominent member of the Palestinian Fatah Party, who has served a prison sentence of more than 20 years after being accused of being involved in an anti-Israeli attack in the early 2000s.

"You will not beat us. Whoever hurts the Israeli people, whoever kills children, whoever kills women... we will remove them," said Ben Gvir in Hebrew in a video he posted on X, quoted from AFP, Friday 15 August.

Barghouti tried to repay the statement. However, Ben Gvir still wanted to dominate his conversation by continuing to speak in front of the figure who was detained by Israel for 2 decades.

אני קורא הבוקר שכל מיני "גורמים בכירים" ברשות לא כ"כ אהבו את מה שאמרתי לארכי מחבל מרואן ברגותי ימ"ש

אז אני אחזור על זה שוב ושוב בלי להתנצל - מי שיתעסק עם עם ישראל, מי שירצח לנו ילדים, מי שירצח לנו נשים, אנחנו נמחק אותו. בעזרת השם. pic.twitter.com/pp1BNqF58M

— איתמר בן גביר (@itamarbengvir) August 15, 2025

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In Ben Gvir's upload, it is not known where Barghouti was detained.

Contacted by AFP, a source close to Ben Gvir said the meeting took place "incidentally" at the Ganot Prison, southern Israel. At that time, Israel's right-wing National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was conducting a surprise inspection.

However, the source was reluctant to say when the video was recorded.

"This morning I read that some 'senior officials' in the Palestinian Authority did not really like what I said to the great terrorist Marwan Barghouti may his name be deleted," Ben Gvir said in a post accompanying the video on Friday morning.

Barghouti, who is now in his 60s, was arrested in 2002 by Israel and sentenced to life in 2004 to murder charges.

Israel claims Barghouti as "terrorist" and punishes him for his role in the second intifada, or insurgency, from 2000-2005.

Barghouti has often been at the top of popular Palestinian leaders' polls and is sometimes described by his supporters as his "Palestinian independence".

In a statement released by the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemenlu) condemned Ben Gvir's actions in uploading the video, including the provocation attitude contained in the video footage.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority considers "organized state terrorism" to be confrontationing.