The Unbreakable Nael Barghouti
After 45 years in Israeli captivity, the longest-held Palestinian prisoner speaks about his fight for liberation: “We deserve a state under the sun.”
from #DropSiteNews
Jan 19, 2026
“I never lost hope, and I never will,” said Nael Barghouti, a 68-year-old #Palestinian from the #WestBank who spent more than four decades in Israeli captivity. It has been a year since Barghouti won his freedom through a prisoner exchange deal signed between #Hamas and #Israel in January 2025. As a condition of his release, Barghouti had to agree to go into exile and was deported to Egypt a month later. “I have been optimistic from the very first day I began my struggle,” he said. “In prison, I was optimistic that I would be free one day. And, even if I were to die in prison, I would remain content, because those who come after me will continue the path, because they are convinced that we are in the right.”
