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Military order means Palestinians in occupied West Bank will endure harsher death penalty regime
West Bank — As part of its ongoing genocidal campaign against Palestinians, the Israeli occupation passed the Death Penalty Law on 30 March. Death by hanging, but only for Palestinians This mandates death by hanging for so-called “terrorism related” offences, and applies only to Palestinians and to crimes committed after the legislation was passed. Five human rights organisations, together with several Arab members of the Israeli Knesset, are ch…
‘Unprecedented act of savagery’: How Israel’s new law places Palestinians on death row by default
By Zeynep Conkar | TRT World | May 19, 2026 Israel has become the first Western-aligned “democracy” to legislate a mandatory death penalty targeting a single ethnic group under military occupation, and this week, it put that law into force. The order was signed on Sunday by Major General Avi Bluth, commander of the Israeli army’s Central Command, at the request of Defence Minister Israel Katz, the same minister who once ordered the immediate cut…
The new Israeli law that establishes the death penalty only for Palestinians convicted of "fatal terrorist acts" came into effect this Sunday, reports The Times of Israel. The law is now applicable in any territory that Tel Aviv controls de facto, including the West Bank and 53% of the Gaza Strip. The law was promoted by the far-right party Otzma Yehudit, to which National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir belongs, who celebrated with champagne …
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