“She has to get out of there. She’s pregnant.” Dr. Mustafa Barghouti speaks on his cell phone to a Palestinian healthcare worker being held by the Israeli army in the southern West Bank. “We’re surrounded by 1,100 checkpoints and 200 security gates that isolate communities and turn them into cages,” he explains at the Ramallah headquarters of the Palestinian National Initiative, the party he founded more than two decades ago with the intellectual Edward Said. A former minister and member of parliament, Barghouti, 71, remains one of the most respected independent voices among Palestinians. “Things like this happen every day,” he says, “and during the war with Iran, everything got worse: we weren’t involved, but we were victims.”

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