Chairman of Hamas Movement’s political bureau Ismail Haneyya received Thursday the wife of the imprisoned prominent Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti Fadwa Barghouti in Cairo.
The two sides stressed during the meeting the importance of Palestinian national unity as the sole tool to confront the Israeli occupation.
Haneyya renewed his group’s keenness to free all Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Hamas Movement is ready to pay any price to free the Palestinian prisoners he said.
Haneyya also spoke highly of Marwan Barghouti’s history in the Palestinian struggle.
Barghouti has been behind bars since April 15 2002 in an Israeli prison when he was tried and sentenced to five life sentences on charges of being behind the armed operations carried out by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades Fatah’s armed wing.
Barghouti is seen as the most popular Fatah figure receiving the largest number of votes in the internal elections of Fatah’s Central Committee 930 votes out of a total of 1400 among the members of the 7th Fatah Conference that was held in December 2016 in Ramallah.
