--- title: Wife of Imprisoned Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Urges Trump to Approve His Release description: Trump’s comment that he would “make a decision” on Marwan Barghouti’s case has prompted calls for him to press Israel to release the Palestinian leader. canonical: https://time.com/7327932/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-deal-marwan-barghouti/ author: Karl Vick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-10-23T19:38:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-30T13:35:50.650Z article:section: World og:title: Wife of Imprisoned Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Urges Trump to Approve His Release og:description: Trump’s comment that he would “make a decision” on Marwan Barghouti’s case has prompted calls for him to press Israel to release the Palestinian leader. og:url: https://time.com/7327932/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-deal-marwan-barghouti/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c614e19fd481f39/6998cafd7323afdcec2bcf73/GettyImages-1249572685.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TOPSHOT-MIDEAST-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-BARGHUTI og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Wife of Imprisoned Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Urges Trump to Approve His Release twitter:description: Trump’s comment that he would “make a decision” on Marwan Barghouti’s case has prompted calls for him to press Israel to release the Palestinian leader. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c614e19fd481f39/6998cafd7323afdcec2bcf73/GettyImages-1249572685.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Wife of Imprisoned Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Urges Trump to Push for His Release > Sponsored content. 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Marwan Barghout is led to a police vehicle 29 September 2003 on his way back to jail, after appearing before a Tel Aviv court.Tal Cohen—AFP via Getty Images by [Karl Vick](https://time.com/author/karl-vick/) and [Eric Cortellessa](https://time.com/author/eric-cortellessa/) Oct 23, 2025 7:38 PM UTC The wife of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has urged Donald Trump to push for her husband’s release after the U.S. President said he would “make a decision” on the matter. “Mr. President, a genuine partner awaits you—one who can help fulfill the dream we share of just and lasting peace in the region,” Fadwa Barghouti said in a statement to TIME. “For the sake of freedom for the Palestinian people and peace for all future generations, help release Marwan Barghouti.” Trump made the comment in an[ interview with TIME](https://time.com/7327689/trump-israel-gaza-deal-interview-transcript/?utm%5Fsource=chatgpt.com) when asked about whether he would support freeing Barghouti, who has long been seen by Palestinians and some diplomats as a potential unifying leader. “I am literally being confronted with that question about 15 minutes before you called. That was the question. That was my question of the day. So I'll be making a decision,” he said. Marwan Barghouti, 66, has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002 and was sentenced in 2004 to five life sentences for his role in attacks during the Second Intifada—the Palestinian armed uprising that followed the breakdown of the 1993 Oslo Accords. He was convicted of directing shooting and bombing attacks that killed five people, though he denied involvement and declined to mount a defense, saying he did not recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli court. Once a prominent participant in the Oslo peace process, Barghouti was known for cultivating ties with senior Israeli officials. Although a senior member of Fatah—the secular nationalist party that dominates the Palestinian Authority—Barghouti has maintained good relations with Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls Gaza. His name was reported to be high on the list of prisoners Hamas sought to include in hostage-exchange talks following its Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, which killed more than 1,200 people in Israel and triggered the war that has since killed more than 60,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Barghouti remains in prison, where he consistently[ leads polls](https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/997) for president of the Palestinian Authority, the transitional governing body created under the Oslo Accords. “They don’t have a leader right now,” Trump[ noted](https://time.com/7327675/trump-israel-gaza-deal-interview/). “At least a visible leader.” Trump, who has been credited for brokering the cease-fire that freed Israeli hostages, now faces a more complex task: shaping a postwar framework for governing Gaza’s 2 million residents. His peace initiative, backed by several Arab governments, marks an inflection point for the broader political question of Palestinian aspirations for their own nation in Gaza and the West Bank, where another 3 million Palestinians reside. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly opposes the “two-state solution.” But Trump's statement on Barghouti's fate raised hopes that the President—who described strong-arming the Israeli premier to accept the cease-fire—might intervene again. Among those encouraging the President to take that step is Ronald Lauder, the billionaire president of the World Jewish Congress and a longtime Trump ally, who has urged Barghouti’s release. “I think that the fact that he's thinking about it is a great step in the right direction,” Lauder told TIME. “A two-state solution is only possible if you have a good leader and Marwan Barghouti will be the right leader for it. Now it doesn't have to happen in one or two years–it could be three, four or five years, whatever time it takes. But once you start having peace between Israel and the Palestinian people, you have the future of a peaceful Middle East.” Asked why Israel’s government continues to keep Barghouti imprisoned, Lauder said, “because they know he would make a good state. The people they released are much worse than him.” TIME has contacted the Israeli government for comment. Barghouti’s family alleges that he has been beaten by guards in Israel's prisons, which are[ under the control](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxg3xg8xyyo) of Itamar Ben-Gvir, a far-right member of Netanyahu's coalition. The Israeli Prison Service called the beating allegation false. In August, Ben-Gvir released a[ video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fis8RI%5Fkx%5F0) of himself berating a visibly frail Barghouti in his cell. “He's a unifying figure,” Barghouti's son, Arab,[ told](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/marwan-barghoutis-son-on-the-quest-for-palestinian-statehood-and-who-will-lead-them) PBS this week. “He is capable of unifying the Palestinian people across factions, across secular, extremists, whatever you want to call it, and bring them into a reasonable political vision that is accepted by the international community.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7327932/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-deal-marwan-barghouti/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7327932/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-deal-marwan-barghouti/"},"headline":"Wife of Imprisoned Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Urges Trump to Push for His Release","datePublished":"2025-10-23T19:38:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T13:35:50.650Z","description":"Trump’s comment that he would “make a decision” on Marwan Barghouti’s case has prompted calls for him to press Israel to release the Palestinian leader.","url":"https://time.com/7327932/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-deal-marwan-barghouti/","keywords":["Israel-Hamas War","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c614e19fd481f39/6998cafd7323afdcec2bcf73/GettyImages-1249572685.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Karl Vick","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/karl-vick/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Cortellessa","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eric-cortellessa/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c614e19fd481f39/6998cafd7323afdcec2bcf73/GettyImages-1249572685.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TOPSHOT-MIDEAST-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-BARGHUTI","caption":"TOPSHOT-MIDEAST-ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN-BARGHUTI","creditText":"Tal Cohen—AFP via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/israel-hamas-war/","name":"Israel-Hamas War"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7327932/trump-israel-hamas-gaza-deal-marwan-barghouti/","name":"Wife of Imprisoned Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Urges Trump to Push for His Release"}}]}] ```