Israel’s expanded death penalty laws targeting Palestinians criticised
Israel’s parliament has passed a law making the death penalty a default punishment for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly “acts of terrorism” against Israelis.
The law would apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
The legislation has drawn criticism from a number of Israeli politicians and humanitarian groups, as well as international rights groups.
Israeli human rights group B’tselem International Director Sarit Michaeli called the law “discriminatory”, adding “Israeli Jews who live in the occupied territories, Israeli settlers, will not face any sort of death penalty in the rare occurrence that they might actually be tried or convicted of any sort of offences, and certainly not the killing of Palestinians”.
The law would also technically apply to Jewish Israelis as the law stipulates attacks must be aimed at “ending Israel’s existence”, but critics say this is extremely unlikely.
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