Israel's far-right national security minister visited prominent Palestinian Marwan Barghouti in jail and told him "you will not win", a video showed on Friday, a day after another hardline cabinet member vowed to "bury" the idea of a Palestinian state.
Security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared the video on his X account, also telling Barghouti — a potential unifying figure among Palestinians who has been jailed for more than two decades — that anyone who threatens Israel would be eliminated.
The prison visit took place earlier this week.
In the video clip on Ben-Gvir's X which showed Barghouti looking thin and weak, the minister told him: "You will not win. Anyone who messes with the people of Israel, anyone who murders our children, anyone who murders our women - we will wipe him out."
"You have to know this, throughout history," he said in the 13-second clip which cut out Barghouti's reply.
The Palestinian Authority described Ben-Gvir's remarks as a "direct threat" to the 66-year-old. Barghouti is a senior member of the Fatah movement that runs the authority, which exercises limited civic rule in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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