'The most popular Palestinian leader has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002'
Marwan Barghouti, a prominent Palestinian leader, has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002. He is a senior official in the Fatah movement, which was founded in 1959 to advocate for the liberation of Palestine. The group has played a significant role in Palestinian politics and has been involved in various struggles against Israeli occupation.
- ▪Marwan Barghouti has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002.
- ▪He is a senior official in the Fatah movement, founded in 1959.
- ▪Fatah was established to advocate for the liberation of Palestine.
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Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah official currently in prison, at a Jerusalem court on January 25, 2012. BERNAT ARMANGUE/AP In 1959, a clandestine group of exiled activists founded the Palestine Liberation Movement in Kuwait, known by its reversed Arabic acronym, Fatah. These activists, who came from a collection of pan-Arab, Socialist and Islamist movements, abandoned their previous commitments to prioritize a new mission: the "liberation of Palestine." Yasser Arafat quickly emerged as the leader of this movement, which was at various times targeted by different Arab security services. Arafat later recruited Mahmoud Abbas, the current Palestinian president who was then living in Qatar, to help develop Fatah's networks in the Gulf region.
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