Ben-Gvir hangs images of ruined Gaza in jails to intimidate Palestinian prisoners, Barghouti claims

“This is what they have to see in the morning when they go out for their yard hour. One of them, I think here (pointing), that’s his house," the minister said.

Palestinian Legislative Council and Palestinian Liberation Organization member Mustafa Barghouti claimed on Wednesday that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pushed for pictures of destruction in Gaza to be hung in Israeli prisons.

In a Tuesday post on X/Twitter, Barghouti posted a video of Ben-Gvir pointing to a picture of destruction in Gaza and explaining why it was in the prison.

“This is what they have to see in the morning when they go out for their yard hour. One of them, I think here (pointing), that’s his house," Ben-Gvir said in the video.

Barghouti said that the pictures were a tactic to “ intimidate Palestinian hostages and political prisoners.”

Palestinian prisoners

Israeli media reported in February that Palestinian prisoners who were released in part of a past hostage deal were shown a three-minute video that depicted the scale of destruction in the Gaza Strip.

The video was made by the IDF in cooperation with the Israel Prison Service.

Ben-Gvir recently met with Barghouti in prison to warn him that "Whoever messes with Israel - we will wipe him out."

"You will not defeat us, whoever messes with the people of Israel, whoever murders our children and women - we will wipe him out," Ben-Gvir told him. "You need to know this, it's been like this throughout history.

Ben-Gvir later responded to criticism by the Palestinian Authority, which called his remarks "state terrorism."

"The Palestinian Authority's Foreign Ministry condemns the raid by extremist Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on the cell of commander Marwan al-Barghouti, directly threatening him. This is an unprecedented provocation and organized state terrorism," the PA statement read.

Ben-Gvir said he would repeat his words "again and again without apologizing: anyone who messes with the people of Israel, anyone who murders our children, anyone who murders our women - we will wipe him out. With God’s help."