‘My father is bleeding’: Israeli guard shoots Marwan Barghouti at point-blank range
Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti
The Palestine Chronicle reports on 13 July 2026:
Key Developments
- An Israeli prison guard fired a rubber bullet at Marwan Barghouti’s leg from point-blank range, causing injury and bleeding.
- His son said Barghouti was not taken to a hospital and received no medication despite his deteriorating health.
- Fatah warned that repeated assaults, isolation and medical neglect amount to a policy of “slow execution” against the imprisoned leader.
An Israeli prison guard shot senior Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti in the leg with a rubber bullet at point-blank range, leaving him wounded and bleeding inside prison without medical treatment, according to his family.
Arab Barghouti, the imprisoned Fatah leader’s son, said Monday that his father’s health had deteriorated following a series of attacks inside Israeli prisons. “My father is bleeding inside the prison and is prohibited from receiving treatment,” he told Al-Ghad television, adding that Israeli forces had assaulted him repeatedly.
According to the family, Barghouti was neither transferred to a hospital nor provided with medication after the latest attack.
His wife, attorney Fadwa Barghouti, said the family learned of the shooting following his most recent prison visit. She said a guard fired the rubber bullet directly at his leg from zero distance, causing a wound and bleeding.
The assault came as the Israel Prison Service issued what the family described as an incitement report against Barghouti and as the international campaign demanding his release continued to expand.