Seeing him coming up from the olive grove (and what else, we're in the West Bank, but there are avocados here too) with his shirt full of dirt, you wouldn't guess that this man was a key minister in the Palestinian National Authority. You'd be wrong, because then you didn't see the three-story house just up the hill, the monument at the roundabout built for two"martyrs" from his family. Or the person he was on a video call with just a minute earlier: an unrecognizable Bilal Ajarmeh, sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of Israelis in the West Bank in 2003, among the most high-profile names released under the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and expelled to Egypt. The two grew up together in this village near Ramallah, Silwad, and within the youth of Fatah. “I'm not educated, but here they say that those who work the land speak clearly, that's why they voted for me.” Qadura Fares was in the Palestinian Legislative Council from 1996 to 2006, obviously first passing through Israeli prisons (from 1981, freed in 1994 with the Oslo Accords). Arafat wanted him to lead the association of political prisoners, then he became minister for prisoners, until he broke with Abu Mazen when he wanted to limit the law on benefits for the families of prisoners and killed militants. He is one of Marwan Barghouti 's greatest allies: “I fought for his release, now I'm fighting for his election.”