Ben-Gvir Unveils Hanging Facility, Viewing Booths for Terrorists in Israeli Prison
- On Tuesday, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced that Israel is constructing a death-row wing featuring a dedicated execution facility for convicted terrorists within central Israel.
- The project fulfills a core campaign pledge by Ben-Gvir and his Otzma Yehudit party following the Knesset's passage of the Terrorists Law in March to toughen security prisoner conditions.
- "We are making history," Ben-Gvir emphasized, noting the facility includes viewing booths for victims' families, with several members of the Choosing Life Forum serving as official inspectors under the Terrorists Law.
- Arguing it discriminates against Palestinians, Israeli-Arab lawmakers challenged the law in the High Court in April, while the policy remains controversial as Israel historically used capital punishment only in exceptional circumstances.
- Moving beyond the historical precedent of the execution of Adolf Eichmann in 1962, this initiative represents a significant shift in Israeli criminal policy, aiming to impose the most severe penalties on convicted terrorists.
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Dömda palestinier ska hängas från en enormous galge. Israeliska myndigheter har dan börjat byggandet, enligt Israels säkerhetsminister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Israel started the construction of a death row with a gallows designed for Palestinian people convicted of deadly terrorist attacks. To show the yard was the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who also announced spaces from which you can attend executions. The structure implements the law on capital punishment approved by the Knesset on March 30, which provides for death by hanging. The norm is contested before the Israeli Supreme Co…
The Israeli authorities are planning to build a prison facility with a wing dedicated to the executions of prisoners sentenced to death, a space that...
Israel’s Ben Gvir boasts of planned execution facility for Palestinian prisoners
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WATCH beaming Israeli security minister unveil execution facility for Palestinians
The facility will be used to hang convicted “terrorists” under a controversial new law and will include viewing booths, according to Itamar Ben-Gvir Israel is building an execution facility for Palestinian prisoners sentenced to death on terrorism charges, ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has announced. Apart from an execution chamber, the facility will house...
Israel’s Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, shared what the facility looks like where Palestinians will be executed, ensuring that they will be done in a public event “as in the United States.” Itamar Ben Gvir said that just as he has fulfilled other promises in Israel, the construction of the “hanging facility” has begun to develop to end the Palestinians, whom he mentions as “terrorists.” Israel begins building facilities to execute; they wil…
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