The leader of the Palestinian militias in the West Bank called from jail for Palestinians to continue fighting Israel. “It’s one of our rights as people under occupation to keep resisting this occupation,” Marwan Barghouti, who was arrested by Israel in April, said in a statement Wednesday.
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