Fatah leader at the heart of the expected prisoner deal between Hamas and Israel. Some Palestinians see in Barghouti the person capable of reuniting them.
Others see him as a card that Hamas needs to repel international pressure after the end of the aggression. Many Palestinians see Bargh outi - who was sentenced to five life sentences on charges of "terrorism" - as a Palestinian who can unite secularists and Islamists among them. He has not seen his father for 22 years, his wife has not visited him for a whole year.