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The Palestinian Fatah movement warned that the Israeli government was trying to “assassinate” Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti after he was reportedly attacked by prison guards again. Barghouti, a hugely popular Palestinian figure, has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002 after an Israeli court convicted him of murder, claiming he was behind attacks in Israel, handing him five life sentences. He is currently being kept at the Megiddo prison in northern Israel, where he faced the latest assault. Barghouti was assaulted along with other prisoners early last month, according to a lawyer from t…

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