APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Ramallah - 26 March 2021. Palestinians attend the funeral of a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Omar Barghouti "Abu Asif", in the West Bank city of Ramallah
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Following a month of struggle against the COVID-19 disease, freed Palestinian prisoner and highly-respected leader within the Islamic movement in the West Bank, Omar Barghouti, passed away in a Ramallah hospital on Thursday.
Omar Barghouti is a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. He received the Gandhi Peace Award in 2017.
One of the leading members of the Hamas movement in the West Bank, Barghouti is from the village of Kobar, near Ramallah.
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