Hamas condemns Israeli minister's visit to jailed Fatah leader
'There is no longer any meaning to brutality except in the form of one of the leaders of this inhumane entity,' al-Risheq wrote on Telegram.
He criticised the minister for confronting a shackled and isolated Barghouti, saying: 'A Zionist minister gathers his army, his guards, and the blood of his state and stands before a captive leader, shackled and isolated in solitary confinement, barely able to stand, and addresses him, saying: 'You will not triumph over us!''
'If Ben-Gvir had been victorious in Gaza, he would not have said what he said. But this is the arrogance of a criminal who failed to achieve his goal, whose prestige was defeated, and whose reputation was tarnished by the shame of the ages,' al-Risheq added.
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