Marwan Barghouti transferred from Ofer prison to isolation, says Ben Gvir

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on X, formerly Twitter, that Israeli security services transferred prominent Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti from the Ofer prison in Israel into isolated detention.

Ben Gvir said the decision for the transfer was made over information regarding a "planned uprising", without providing further details.

Barghouti, nicknamed “Palestine’s Nelson Mandela”, is one of the most famous Palestinian prisoners. He was arrested by Israeli forces in 2002 and sentenced to five life terms in prison for charges of multiple accounts of murder of Israelis.

He was the former leader of Tanzim, an armed faction of the Palestinian Authority's ruling party Fatah, and is considered one of the most popular Palestinian political figures and a potential successor to Mahmoud Abbas.