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| Senior Hamas official Omar Barghouti dies of COVID-19 |
| 2021-03-26 |
Another one bites the dust. [IsraelTimes] One of the top Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", figures in the West Bank, Omar Barghouti, has died of COVID-19 at the age of 67, media reports say.Barghouti ...the clan has donated many of its sons for generations to Fatah and Hamas... — not to be confused with the BDS founder who has the same name ...formally the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), an effort of the PLO to wage a soft jihad of social and economic pressure against Israel when the various kinetic wars and the first intifada proved mortifying failures. Leading members come from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Omar Barghouti is a co-founder and front man based in the West Bank, while Hamas supports enthusiastically from Gaza... — was diagnosed with the virus several days ago and his condition deteriorated quickly.A longtime operative for the Paleostinian terror group, Barghouti served a total of 27 years in Israeli prison, 13 of which were under administrative detention. He was convicted over the murder of an Israeli in 1978, but was released after seven years in a prisoner swap deal. He was later arrested many times and tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for other terror offenses. Two of his sons murdered Israelis — including an unborn child — in several terror attacks in recent years.
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