RAMALLAH: Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti’s son urged US President Donald Trump to “seize the opportunity” created by the Gaza truce to secure his father’s release and revive the two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.
Sometimes dubbed the “Mandela of Palestine” by his supporters, Marwan Barghouti, 66, was one of the leaders of the second intifada, the Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s.
In June 2004, an Israeli court sentenced him to five life sentences after finding him guilty of involvement in four anti-Israeli attacks.
But the heavy sentences have not diminished his popularity among Palestinians.
“He’s capable and has the track record to unify the Palestinian people,” Arab Barghouti said in an interview on Sunday in English in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
