NEW YORK, August 15, 2025 (WAFA) – Palestine’s ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour condemned on Friday Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for visiting the prison cell of and threatening long-imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.

Masnour condemned in a press statement “the actions of fascist Ben Gvir, who stormed the cell of prominent national leader Marwan Barghouti, heaping onto him abusive language and racist, fascistic hate.”

He said that Ben Gvir posted the video of himself on his personal account on X, “boasting of his deplorable and immoral behavior in violation of international law which prohibits such heinous acts in dealing with prisoners and detainees.”

He pledged that “those criminals who kill our children, women, and tens of thousands of our people and abuse our brave prisoners and detainees will be prosecuted in international courts and receive the punishment they deserve for all their crimes against our brave Palestinian people.”

He called on the international community, especially the UN Security Council, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to “take the necessary measures to restrain Israel, the Occupying Power, and its leaders from such violations of international law and to prosecute these criminals and hold them legally accountable.”

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