Khaled Barakat, member of the Executive Committee of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, appeared on Palestine Today TV on Saturday, 7 February 2026 to address the case of Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of Samidoun, and his detention in Greece. On Saturday morning, Mohammed Khatib traveled from Athens to Heraklion airport in Crete in order to participate in an event in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, featuring an address by the liberated Palestinian prisoner Abdel-Nasser Issa.
He was prevented from leaving the airport, arrested and detained, and told that Greek authorities had issued an order banning him from the country on 24 December 2025 — only two days after the conclusion of the tenth Greece-Cyprus-“Israel” summit discussing joint economic ventures — including the transportation of stolen Palestinian gas to Europe — as well as security and military cooperation. He remains detained and threatened with deportation.
In the interview, Barakat highlighted the sharp contradictions between the support of the Greek people for Palestine and the role of the Greek government in complicity with Zionist genocide, noting the widespread support that Mohammed has already received. He also noted that the movement views such repression as a challenge to grow and confront Zionism and imperialism, noting that the evening event went forward as planned.
“After October 7th, all false claims about human rights and democracy in the West collapsed. Today, we have dozens of Palestinian and non-Palestinian prisoners in British, German, American prisons, and others. They are being detained without any legal basis or justification. Some people are losing their jobs. There are deportations and expulsions,” Barakat said, noting that the arrest of Mohammed Khatib is part and parcel of a policy of repression and targeting of the Palestinian movement in Europe and North America.
Barakat emphasized the role of the Palestinian people in shatat (exile and diaspora). “Palestine is present today all over the world, and the Palestinian shatat plays a crucial, essential role, and must play an even bigger role and mobilize further, so the shatat returns as a key participant in the resistance and a key participant in building a real revolutionary solidarity movement with the Palestinian people.”
He sharply criticized the Palestinian Authority’s embassies, noting that they play no role in defending the Palestinian people from repression around the world, let alone advocating for the expansion of the solidarity movement or the boycott of the Zionist entity. “When do you know that you are entering a Palestinian embassy? When you enter it and see pictures of the martyr Fathi Shaqaqi, George Habash, Marwan Barghouti, Ahmad Sa’adat, and Mohammed Deif. That is when it becomes a Palestinian embassy. But when you enter these so-called Palestinian embassies—the Authority’s embassies—they hang pictures of Mahmoud Abbas. Have you seen a single demonstration in the whole world, since the war of genocide began until today, raising a picture of Mahmoud Abbas? In any country, city, or capital? No one raises his picture. Because no one considers him the representative of the Palestinian people.”
Watch the interview (Arabic, with subtitles):
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