Israeli Knesset Approves Bill to Execute Palestinian Prisoners
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli Knesset approved on Sunday a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners.
During the session of the so-called Israeli National Security Committee, far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that while some close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested postponing the discussion, he rejected the idea.
“This law is a matter of the hour, to create strong deterrence and impose the death penalty on prisoners,” he stated.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a joint statement that the approval of the draft law paving the way for its first reading, after passing a preliminary reading before the Israeli genocide in Gaza, is no longer surprising in light of the unprecedented brutality practiced by the occupation regime.
The statement stressed that despite the clarity of international law, which prohibits the death penalty, the occupation’s insistence on codifying this crime and granting it a so-called legal cover once again affirms that the occupation state acts as though it is above the law and beyond accountability.
The statement stressed that this was further exposed by the genocidal war, which revealed the failure of the international community and its systematic complicity with the colonial killing regime.
The joint statement added that the occupation’s brutality has reached an indescribable level, as it has killed dozens of prisoners and detainees since the genocidal war and is now seeking to entrench the crime of execution through the enactment of a special law.
This law, the statement noted, comes in addition to a repressive legislative system that for decades has targeted all aspects of Palestinian life, much of it directed specifically against prisoners and detainees.
