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Videoscreen grab: death penalty law rattles imprisoned/taken hostaged Palestinians

Al Jazeera - April 2, 2026
{Eight countries condemn Israel’s one-sided death penalty for Palestinians
The Muslim-majority nations denounce Israel’s ‘increasingly discriminatory’ practices that ‘entrench a system of apartheid’. Eight ⁠Muslim-majority countries have issued a joint statement that “strongly ⁠condemned” Israel’s one-sided bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks. Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt, Indonesia, ⁠Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, ⁠and the United Arab Emirates condemned “increasingly discriminatory, escalating Israeli practices that entrench a system of apartheid”, according to the joint statement released by Islamabad on Thursday. Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed the controversial bill on Monday, a one-sided law that will not impose the same penalty on Jewish Israelis convicted of killings. Its passage marks a major victory for Israel’s far right, with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir having pushed for its enactment as one of the main conditions of his Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party’s coalition agreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The eight countries also expressed “deep concern” over the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention, warning of mounting risks amid reports of “ongoing abuses, including torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, starvation, and the denial of basic rights”. The statement read that these practices reflect a “broader pattern of violations against the Palestinian people”. The countries also cautioned against measures by Israel that risk further inflaming tensions on the ground. The law has also been criticised by the United Nations and the European Union; however, Israel’s ally, the United States, came out in support of its “sovereign right to determine its own laws”. Israel has applied the death penalty twice since its founding. It has occupied the West Bank since 1967, and violence there by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians has soared since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in 2023. Analysts have said that under international law, Israel’s parliament should not be legislating in the West Bank, which is not sovereign Israeli territory, despite the best efforts of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition to annex the territory to Israel.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/2/muslim-majority-countries-condemn-israels-one-sided-new-death-penalty-law

Al Jazeera - April 2, 2026 By Mariam Barghouti Palestinian American writer based in Ramallah.
{Israel’s death penalty law is not about executing Palestinians
It is about eliminating Palestinian existence in Palestine. On Monday, Israel passed a death penalty law allowing it to hang those convicted of “terror offences” within an accelerated 90-day period. The law is no surprise for Palestinians; it is only another step in a longstanding strategy of elimination. In the last two and a half years, at least 87 Palestinian detainees have been killed in what human rights organisations describe as a “network of torture camps” – the highest recorded number since 1967. While United Nations bodies and various states have expressed concern and condemnation, Palestinians understand this law for what it is: the institutionalisation of a practice well under way.
Israel’s timing: A message to the Palestinians
It is not just the provisions of the law that are significant, but also the context in which it is passed. It comes less than a month after Israel dropped all charges against its soldiers accused of mass raping Palestinian detainees at the notorious detention camp of Sde Teiman. This is not incidental. Israel is legalising a pattern of impunity. One population is granted explicit impunity for organised sexual violence while the other is now subject to execution within 90 days, in a military court system that convicts 96 percent of Palestinians – often on the basis of confessions extracted through torture. It also comes at a time of visible and intensified Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank. In the last month alone, and in tandem with the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, armed Israeli militias carried out more than 7,300 violations against Palestinians in the West Bank alone, including killings, raids, arrests, damage and destruction of property and blocking of the freedom of movement. In late 2023, the entire population of Khirbet Zanuta, in the southern West Bank, was forced out after relentless settler attacks that made remaining impossible. In the north, in 2025, refugee camps were destroyed, depopulated, and turned into Israeli military bases. Previously dismantled illegal Israeli settlements are being rebuilt and legally recognised by Israel. In recent months, not only has the frequency of Israeli attacks against Palestinians increased, but the violence has also become more ferocious and savage. Between January and March, Israeli settlers and soldiers kidnapped children, carried out pogroms, sexually assaulted Palestinian men – even going as far as tying their genitals and parading them around their village – and point-blank executed Palestinian families. Not a single Israeli has been held accountable for these crimes. Meanwhile, Palestinians are being displaced from their homes, and those who have attempted to protect their communities from settler attacks have been arrested by the Israeli army. The message of the death penalty law is deliberate and precise: in the Israeli legal order, Palestinians have no rights. Their removal, either by displacement, death, or exhaustion, is the intended outcome.
Erasing Palestinian capacity to resist
For decades, Israel has been criticised and condemned for its discriminatory legal frameworks against Palestinians in the West Bank, and even against Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. Yet this segregation is meant not merely to emphasise racial supremacy, but to facilitate systemic ruptures. According to a UN report released in January, such laws by Israel are designed to obliterate Palestinian self-determination and destroy possibilities of territorial, political, or cultural continuity. The death penalty law remains true to Israel’s longstanding practice of apartheid and segregated justice frameworks. It is carefully worded to ensure it is applied only to the Palestinians. The most dangerous element of this law is not its discriminatory structure – it is the logic encoded within it. The law imposes the death penalty or life sentence on “a person who intentionally causes the death of another with the aim of harming a citizen or resident of Israel, with the intent of rejecting the existence of the State of Israel”. That clause alone does something remarkable. It is not criminalising violence, but the very political condition of being Palestinian under Israeli occupation. As a settler-expansionist state, what Israel is saying is that a people being systemically dispossessed do not even have the right to resist that dispossession. With that, a Palestinian watching their village systemically emptied by armed settlers who face no legal consequence for attacking and killing is now subject to execution because their very will to survive and protect their loved ones is designated as a capital offence. What Israeli policymakers are ensuring is that amid the gradual but accelerated depopulation of Palestinian towns and villages, resistance becomes impossible. With that, what Israel is actually doing is institutionalising the non-existence of a people. The death penalty law is about land annexation
To understand the death penalty law as a policy focused on detainees only is to miss its purpose entirely. Palestinians are already being executed in their own homes and streets with no court, no charge, and no 90-day waiting period. This law, the legalisation of settlements, the military courts, the demolition orders, and the siege on Gaza should not be seen as separate policies responding to separate problems. These are instruments of a single project, which is the total conquest of Palestinian lands through total control over Palestinian bodies. They each target different bodies in different contexts but serve the same agenda.
Rather than one single dramatic act of extermination, Israel has been constructing a reality where Palestinians cannot remain on the land and cannot survive the attempt at resisting their erasure. The law just adds a new layer to an entire infrastructure of elimination that has already been in operation. The death penalty for Palestinians did not begin with this law. It began with the first Israeli settlement. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/4/2/israels-death-penalty-law-is-not-about-executing-palestinians


Mass Protests Across Syria
Quds news - April 2, 2026
{Mass Protests Across Syria Show Solidarity with Palestinian Detainees and Hostages Amid Israeli Death Penalty Law
For the second night, thousands in across Syria marched in solidarity with Palestinian detainees and hostages, condemning Israel’s new death penalty law.
Damascus (QNN)- For the second consecutive night, cities and towns across Syria erupted in protests in support of Palestinian detainees and hostages held in Israeli jails. Residents in Damascus, Idlib, Hama, Aleppo, Daraa, Hauran, and neighboring towns expressed outrage over Israel’s recent law allowing the execution of Palestinian detainees. Protesters stressed their full solidarity with the Palestinian people and vowed to stand by them against ongoing attacks.
The demonstrations spread across multiple towns in Daraa and Quneitra provinces in the south and Idlib in the north. Protests were reported in Daraa city, Tafas, Sanameen, Inkhil, Dael, Jasim, al-Harak, Namer Saasa, al-Rafid, and Kanaker. The gatherings were spontaneous and wide-reaching, highlighting public anger and support for Palestinians. Hundreds of residents marched toward the border with the occupied Palestinian territories, seeking to reach contact lines. Syrian security checkpoints prevented them from advancing. Meanwhile, Israeli forces on the other side of the border attacked them. Israeli troops fired illuminating flares over Syrian villages near the occupied Golan Heights following the protests. The action reflected rising tensions and military alertness along the border strip. Syrian security forces also closed roads linking Daraa and Quneitra. They deployed heavily to prevent any direct clashes that could escalate along the frontline with Israeli forces. In al-Rafid, protesters held a peaceful sit-in near the border, denouncing the Palestinian detainees death penalty. Residents described the law as a dangerous escalation and a clear violation of human rights. Participants emphasized that their protests are driven by humanitarian and national duty. They said that Palestine remains the central cause, and the voice of the street will continue defending it under any circumstances.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67475&slug=mass-protests-across-syria-show-solidarity-with-palestinian-detainees-and-hostages-amid-israeli-death-penalty-law

Al Jazeera - April 1, 2026
{What are the consequences of Israel’s death penalty law for Palestinians?
Israel has become the first country to vote in favour of capital punishment in the 21st century.
Far-right ministers held champagne celebrations after Israel’s parliament approved a death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of “lethal” attacks. The United Nations, Europe and human rights groups have condemned the law, but the United States has not. What are the implications of this law?} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/inside-story/2026/4/1/what-are-the-consequences-of-israels-death-penalty-law-for-palestinians

Al Jazeera - March 31, 2026 By Simon Speakman Cordall
{What’s Israel’s death penalty law that only applies to Palestinians?
Rights groups condemn Israel’s new law, which will primarily apply to Palestinians, as discriminatory. The Israeli parliament’s approval of a legislation that seeks the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks has stoked fears among the Palestinians and drawn condemnation from the international community, dismayed at the further entrenching of what rights groups have long described as Israel’s “system of apartheid”. The law, which does not apply to Jewish citizens of Israel, was met with jubilation among its backers in the country’s far right. France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom have all raised concerns over what many describe as the overtly racist nature of the bill, whose nature and wording appear to exclusively target Palestinians. “We are particularly worried about the de facto discriminatory character of the bill. The adoption of this bill would risk undermining Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles,” the foreign ministries wrote in a joint statement on Sunday. Rights groups have also criticised the bill, with Amnesty International in February saying the legislation would make the death penalty “another discriminatory tool in Israel’s system of apartheid”. Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called the law discriminatory as it would primarily, if not exclusively, be applied to Palestinians. “Israeli officials argue that the imposing the death penalty is about security, but in reality, it entrenches discrimination and a two-tiered system of justice, both hallmarks of apartheid,” Adam Coogle, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “The death penalty is irreversible and cruel. Combined with its severe restrictions on appeals and its 90-day execution timeline, this bill aims to kill Palestinian detainees faster and with less scrutiny.” Nevertheless, on its successful passage through parliament, amidst the celebrating lawmakers, the legislation’s principal champion, far- right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir – who has previous convictions for far-right “terrorism” – was seen brandishing a champagne. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had attended the chamber to support the bill, could also be seen congratulating lawmakers on its passage. So, how can Israel pass a law targeting one ethnic group and not others? Is that legal, and is this the first time Israel has passed legislation that deliberately discriminates against Palestinians?
Here’s what we know.
How does the law target Palestinians and not Israelis?
By limiting the bulk of the legislation to the military courts that only try Palestinians under occupation. Under the new legislation, anyone found guilty of the killing of an Israeli citizen within the occupied West Bank will, by default, be sentenced to death by the military courts overseeing the occupied territory. While the courts do not regularly publish statistics on convictions, in 2010, the court system did concede that, of the Palestinians tried for offences committed in the occupied West Bank, 99.74 percent were found guilty. In contrast, Israeli settlers, who have killed seven Palestinians in just the weeks following the start of their country’s war on Iran in late February, are tried in civilian courts in Israel. According to an analysis by the UK’s Guardian newspaper in late March, Israel has yet to prosecute any of its citizens for killing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of this decade. Under the new legislation, Israel’s civilian courts are granted an extra degree of leniency in sentencing Israelis found guilty of killing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with judges having the option to choose between the death penalty and life imprisonment. Sentences for the military courts trying Palestinians, in contrast, carry an automatic death penalty, with life imprisonment only available under extreme circumstances. According to a study by the Israeli rights group, Yesh Din, conviction rates for settlers found guilty by civilian courts of committing crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) between 2005 and 2024 ran to about 3 percent. Some 93.8 percent of investigations into settler violence were closed at the end of an investigation with no indictment filed, the group noted. Underpinning much of this is Israel’s 2018 Nation State law, which, in the eyes of many, codifies Israel’s apartheid system of government, defining Israel as the exclusive homeland of the Jewish people and prioritising Jewish settlement as a national value. Critics argue that it downgrades the status of Palestinian citizens, who make up about 20 percent of the population, by omitting any guarantee of equality.
How is that even legal?
According to many, it isn’t.
Despite the best efforts of Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich – who has administrative power over the occupied West Bank – to annex the Palestinian territory, it remains a foreign territory under military occupation. According to Amichai Cohen, a senior fellow at the Center for Security and Democracy of The Israel Democracy Institute, international law does not permit Israel’s parliament to legislate for the West Bank, since the area is not legally part of Israel’s sovereign territory. In September 2024, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly called for end to Israeli occupation of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem within a year. The UNGA resolution backed an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which called Israeli occupation “unlawful”. Similarly, the Association of Civil Rights in Israel announced it had already taken the matter to Israel’s highest court only minutes after the bill was approved. The group argued that the measure was “discriminatory by design” and that lawmakers had no legal authority to impose it on Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, who are not Israeli citizens.
Is this the first time Israel has been accused of using its legal system to target Palestinians?
Far from it.
Human rights groups – including HRW and Amnesty International – have long argued that the legal systems applying to Palestinians and to Israeli settlers in the West Bank are fundamentally unequal. Palestinians live under military law, while settlers fall under Israeli civil law, creating two parallel systems in the same territory. According to rights groups, this structure enables discriminatory detention practices, such as administrative detention (where people can be held indefinitely without charge), dramatically unequal protections under the law, and the selective enforcement of those laws, which have all underpinned widespread accusations of apartheid. As of March 2026, approximately 9,500 Palestinians are detained in Israeli prisons under harsh conditions, with about half held under administrative detention or labelled “unlawful combatants”, denied trial and unable to defend themselves. Legislation relating to the treatment of children in custody has led to concern among many international observers and rights groups. Palestinian minors can be interrogated without parental present and are often denied timely access to legal counsel in defiance of Israel’s own and international law, the HRW noted. Another key area of international concern is the ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes built without permits, which are nearly impossible for Palestinians to obtain. Unauthorised settler outposts, in contrast, are rarely troubled and increasingly retroactively legalised.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/31/whats-israels-death-penalty-law-that-only-applies-to-palestinians


Quds news - March 31, 2026
{World Reacts to Israel’s Approval of Death Penalty for Palestinian Detainees
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- On Monday, the Israeli Knesset passed a death penalty law targeting Palestinian detainees, while excluding Israeli settlers. The move, which effectively formalizes a long-standing policy of “extrajudicial execution under the guise of law,” has been widely condemned by human rights groups and several countries. The law, which enters into effect within 30 days, was approved on Monday in the 120-seat Knesset by 62 lawmakers, including ICC-wanted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with 48 voting against it and one abstention. It was pushed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir as one of the main conditions of his Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party’s coalition agreement with Netanyahu. Ben-Gvir was seen celebrating with champagne in the parliamentary chamber. The Knesset’s National Security Committee approved the bill last Tuesday after introducing amendments. It then referred the legislation to the full parliament for the second and third readings, required for final approval. The law applies specifically to Palestinian hostages and detainees accused of committing alleged attacks described as “nationally or security motivated.” It does not include Zionists who killed native Palestinians, making it a law that is racially discriminatory. Officially, Israel now plans to carry out executions within its infamous detention camps. Around 10,000 Palestinian hostages and detainees, including over 60 women and 350 children, remain in Israeli jails and detention centers, most of them political detainees. On Sunday, Britain, France, Germany and Italy expressed “deep concern” over the legislation, which they said risked “undermining Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles”. Here’s how the world reacts to the law:
Palestine
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the legislation as a “dangerous escalation”. In a social media post, the ministry stressed that “Israel has no sovereignty over Palestinian land” in the occupied territory. “This law once again reveals the nature of the Israeli colonial system, which seeks to legitimise extrajudicial killing under legislative cover,” it said. Hamas slammed the passage of the death penalty law as a “dangerous precedent that threatens the lives” of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. “This decision reaffirms the [Israeli] occupation and its leaders’ contempt for international law and their disregard for all humanitarian norms and conventions,” Hamas said in a statement. The group called on the international community, including the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to take immediate action to protect Palestinian prisoners from Israel’s “brutality”. Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian National Initiative secretary-general, warned of the “seriousness” of the legislation, which he said would target Palestinian political prisoners and activists. In a post on X, he also said that “proposing such an unjust and inhuman law reflects the depth of the fascist shift within the Israeli system, amid the international community’s failure to impose punitive measures against it”.
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
The Gaza-based rights organisation said it condemned the law “in the strongest terms”. “This law targets Palestinians and entrenches Israel’s long-standing policy of extrajudicial execution under the guise of law, in clear violation of international human rights and humanitarian law,” the PCHR said in a social media post. The group called on the international community “to urgently intervene” in defence of Palestinian prisoners, while warning that “silence and inaction will only further deepen impunity and erode the rules-based international order”.
UN Human Rights Office
The UN Human Rights Office in Palestine called on Israel to “immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law”, noting that the measure violates the country’s obligations under international law. “The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate international law’s prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment,” the office said on X. “Additionally, this law further entrenches Israel’s violation of the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid as it will exclusively apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel, who are often convicted after unfair trials.”
Amnesty International
The global human rights group called on the Israeli authorities to repeal the law, which it described as “a public display of cruelty, discrimination and utter contempt for human rights”. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s senior director of research, advocacy, policy and campaigns, noted that the law’s passage comes just weeks after Israel dropped all charges against soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. “For years, we have seen an alarming pattern of apparent extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings of Palestinians – with the perpetrators also enjoying near-total impunity,” Guevara-Rosas said in a statement. “This new law which allows for state-sanctioned executions is a culmination of such policies.”
Council of Europe
Alain Berset, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, denounced the law’s passage as a “serious regression”. “The death penalty is a legal anachronism incompatible with contemporary human-rights standards. Moreover, any application of the death penalty that could be characterised as discriminatory is unacceptable in a state governed by the rule of law,” Berset said in a statement. He also noted that Israel is a party to several Council of Europe conventions and participates in several cooperation mechanisms. “In this context, the Council of Europe will closely monitor upcoming developments regarding this law. It will examine its implications for the Council of Europe conventions to which Israel is a party, as well as for the cooperation mechanisms in which this state participates,” Berset said.
Adalah
”This law institutionalizes the state-sanctioned, cold-blooded killing of individuals who pose no threat whatsoever,” Suhad Bishara, legal director at Adalah, a Palestinian-run legal centre, said in a statement. “By design, this legislation exclusively targets Palestinians, violating the fundamental principle of equality and prohibition on racial discrimination,” Bishara added. “The application of Israeli domestic law to Palestinian residents of the West Bank is a flagrant violation of international law, as the Knesset holds no sovereign authority to legislate for an occupied population,” Bishara’s statement added. Adalah plans to petition the Supreme Court against the law. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, another leading Israeli human rights group, announced on Monday that it had filed a petition against the law. "First, the Knesset has no authority to legislate for the West Bank. Israel holds no sovereignty there," the group said.  "Second, the law is unconstitutional. It violates the right to life, human dignity, due process, and equality - rights protected under (Israel's) Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty," the group added.
Al-Haq
The Palestinian human rights group condemned this as an "unlawful attack constituting #genocide, apartheid, collective punishment, and torture. We call on states to act: pressure Israel to abandon the bill, impose sanctions and an arms embargo, and ensure accountability under international law."
Ireland
In a statement issued by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee condemned the bill, saying she was “particularly concerned about the de facto discriminatory nature of the Bill as it relates to Palestinians”. “The right to life is a fundamental human right and Ireland is consistently and strongly opposed to the use of the death penalty in all cases and in all circumstances,” she said, urging the Israeli government not to implement the law.
Italy
In a social media post just hours before the law was officially passed, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said that Italy, Germany, France and the United Kingdom had requested that the Israeli government withdraw the bill. “The commitments undertaken, especially with the resolutions voted on at the United Nations, for a moratorium on the death penalty cannot be disregarded,” Tajani wrote on X. “For us, life is an absolute value; arrogating to oneself the right to take it away in order to inflict a punishment is an inhuman measure that violates the dignity of the person.”} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67462&slug=world-reacts-to-israels-approval-of-death-penalty-for-palestinian-detainees


Al Jazeera - March 31, 2026
{‘Dangerous escalation’: World reacts to Israel passing death penalty law
Rights groups denounce Israeli legislation as a violation of international law that puts Palestinian prisoners at risk.
Human rights groups and Palestinian leaders have condemned Israel’s passage of a law approving the use of the death penalty against Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, calling the measure a violation of international law and inherently discriminatory. The legislation, passed on Monday by Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, makes the death penalty by hanging the default punishment for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who have been found guilty of killing Israelis. It was championed by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was seen celebrating with champagne in the parliamentary chamber after the law was passed with 62 votes to 48. “We made history,” Ben-Gvir wrote in a social media post rejecting international calls to withdraw the legislation. “And I say to the people of the European Union who have applied pressure and threatened the State of Israel: We are not afraid, we will not submit,” he said. The legislation comes amid a surge in Israeli military and settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, as well as thousands of arrests, in the shadow of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said it had filed an appeal against the law with Israel’s Supreme Court. Here’s a quick look at how rights advocates and leaders have reacted to the death penalty law:
Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the legislation as a “dangerous escalation”. In a social media post, the ministry stressed that “Israel has no sovereignty over Palestinian land” in the occupied territory. “This law once again reveals the nature of the Israeli colonial system, which seeks to legitimise extrajudicial killing under legislative cover,” it said.
Hamas
The Palestinian group slammed the passage of the death penalty law as a “dangerous precedent that threatens the lives” of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
“This decision reaffirms the [Israeli] occupation and its leaders’ contempt for international law and their disregard for all humanitarian norms and conventions,” Hamas said in a statement. The group called on the international community, including the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to take immediate action to protect Palestinian prisoners from Israel’s “brutality”. Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian National Initiative secretary-general
Barghouti warned of the “seriousness” of the legislation, which he said would target Palestinian political prisoners and activists. In a post on X, he also said that “proposing such an unjust and inhuman law reflects the depth of the fascist shift within the Israeli system, amid the international community’s failure to impose punitive measures against it”.
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
The Gaza-based rights organisation said it condemned the law “in the strongest terms”. “This law targets Palestinians and entrenches Israel’s long-standing policy of extrajudicial execution under the guise of law, in clear violation of international human rights and humanitarian law,” the PCHR said in a social media post. The group called on the international community “to urgently intervene” in defence of Palestinian prisoners, while warning that “silence and inaction will only further deepen impunity and erode the rules-based international order”.
UN Human Rights Office
The UN Human Rights Office in Palestine called on Israel to “immediately repeal the discriminatory death penalty law”, noting that the measure violates the country’s obligations under international law. “The United Nations opposes the death penalty under all circumstances. The implementation of this new law would violate international law’s prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment,” the office said on X. “Additionally, this law further entrenches Israel’s violation of the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid as it will exclusively apply to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Israel, who are often convicted after unfair trials.”
Amnesty International
The global human rights group called on the Israeli authorities to repeal the law, which it described as “a public display of cruelty, discrimination and utter contempt for human rights”. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s senior director of research, advocacy, policy and campaigns, noted that the law’s passage comes just weeks after Israel dropped all charges against soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. “For years, we have seen an alarming pattern of apparent extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings of Palestinians – with the perpetrators also enjoying near-total impunity,” Guevara-Rosas said in a statement. “This new law which allows for state-sanctioned executions is a culmination of such policies.”
Council of Europe
Alain Berset, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, denounced the law’s passage as a “serious regression”. “The death penalty is a legal anachronism incompatible with contemporary human-rights standards. Moreover, any application of the death penalty that could be characterised as discriminatory is unacceptable in a state governed by the rule of law,” Berset said in a statement. He also noted that Israel is a party to several Council of Europe conventions and participates in several cooperation mechanisms. “In this context, the Council of Europe will closely monitor upcoming developments regarding this law. It will examine its implications for the Council of Europe conventions to which Israel is a party, as well as for the cooperation mechanisms in which this state participates,” Berset said.
Ireland Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee
In a statement issued by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, McEntee condemned the bill, saying she was “particularly concerned about the de facto discriminatory nature of the Bill as it relates to Palestinians”. “The right to life is a fundamental human right and Ireland is consistently and strongly opposed to the use of the death penalty in all cases and in all circumstances,” she said, urging the Israeli government not to implement the law.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani
In a social media post just hours before the law was officially passed, Tajani said that Italy, Germany, France and the United Kingdom had requested that the Israeli government withdraw the bill. “The commitments undertaken, especially with the resolutions voted on at the United Nations, for a moratorium on the death penalty cannot be disregarded,” Tajani wrote on X. “For us, life is an absolute value; arrogating to oneself the right to take it away in order to inflict a punishment is an inhuman measure that violates the dignity of the person.”} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/30/dangerous-escalation-world-reacts-to-israel-passing-death-penalty-law


Screenschot: Outrage and condemnation
Al Jazeera - March 31, 2026
{Outrage and condemnation over Israel’s death penalty law for Palestinians
Outrage and widespread condemnation has followed Israel legalising the death penalty for Palestinians, making execution by hanging mandatory for any convicted of deadly attacks. European governments, rights groups, and Palestinians are appalled, calling it a violation of international law that must be repealed.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/31/outrage-and-condemnation-over-israels-death-penalty-law-for-palestinians


'Handala' speaks out too
Quds news - March 30, 2026
{Israeli Knesset Approves Death Penalty Law for Palestinian Hostages and Detainees
Israel passes deadly law to execute Palestinian hostages and detainees amid US support and global silence, marking a grim turning point in the Palestinian struggle.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli Knesset has voted to approve a law allowing the mass execution of Palestinian detainees and hostages. The legislation targets native Palestinians accused of killing or participating in the killing of Israelis, while excluding Israelis accused of killing native Palestinians. Human rights advocates call the move discriminatory and racially biased. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported the law, along with opposition leader, Avigdor Lieberman, and members of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. The Knesset’s National Security Committee approved the bill last Tuesday after introducing amendments. It then referred the legislation to the full parliament for the second and third readings, required for final approval. According to Haaretz, the law was sent for the final vote before the Knesset recess for Passover in early April. The law applies specifically to Palestinian hostages and detainees accused of committing alleged attacks described as “nationally or security motivated.” It does not include zionists who killed native Palestinians, making it a law that is racially discriminatory. Officially, Israel now plans to carry out executions within its infamous detention camps. Around 10,000 Palestinian hostages and detainees, including over 60 women and 350 children, remain in Israeli jails and detention centers, most of them political detainees. Human rights groups warn that the law could escalate violence, deepen systemic discrimination, and normalize the use of the death penalty in a conflict already marked by inequality and repression. This legislation marks the first time Israel has formally authorized executions of Palestinian hostages, signaling a sharp shift in policy and raising urgent calls for international intervention.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67460&slug=israeli-knesset-approves-death-penalty-law-for-palestinian-hostages-and-detainees

Al Jazeera - March 30, 2026 By Al Jazeera Staff and AFP
{European nations criticise Israel’s death penalty plans
France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom raise concern over ‘de facto discriminatory character of the bill.’ European countries have expressed “deep concern” over Israeli plans to extend the application of the death penalty in a bill that could disproportionately target Palestinians. In a statement shared by the German Federal Foreign Office on Sunday, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom expressed their “deep concern” over the bill, which could be voted into law next week. “We are particularly worried about the de facto discriminatory character of the bill. The adoption of this bill would risk undermining Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles,” it said. Israel’s far-right government is due to put its bill to a second and third reading in the Knesset, the parliament, on Monday. If it passes, it will almost certainly face a legal challenge and go before the Supreme Court. The legislation is being considered as Israel’s genocidal policies against Palestinians in Gaza continue, and as Palestinians in the occupied West Bank experience a surge in Israeli military and settler violence. Amnesty International previously said the proposals, championed by government figures, including far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, would make the death penalty “another discriminatory tool in Israel’s system of apartheid”. “These amendments mean that the most extreme and irrevocable punishment is being reserved for, and weaponised against, Palestinians,” the rights group said in February. At that time, a dozen United Nations rights experts argued that the legislation would remove “judicial and prosecutorial discretion” and prevent courts from considering “individual circumstances, including mitigating factors, and from imposing a proportionate sentence that fits the crime”. Also on Sunday, Council of Europe chief Alain Berset issued an appeal to Israel over the draft law. “The Council of Europe opposes the death penalty in all places and in all circumstances,” he said, calling on the authorities to abandon it.} Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/29/european-nations-criticise-israels-death-penalty-plans

Quds news - March 30, 2026
{European Countries Warn Israel Over Proposed Death Penalty Law Targeting Palestinian Hostages
European powers raise alarm as Israel pushes an infamous death penalty law targeting Palestinian hostages and detainees, warning it could undermine so-called “democratic principles.”
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom have voiced strong concern over a proposed Israeli law that would expand the use of the death penalty against Palestinian hostages and detainees. The four countries issued a joint statement on Sunday, warning that the legislation could soon move to a final vote in the Israeli parliament. The statement, released by the German Foreign Ministry, stressed that the bill carries a “discriminatory character.” The foreign ministers said the proposal would significantly broaden the scope for imposing capital punishment against native Palestinians. They also warned that adopting such a law could undermine Israel’s commitments to its alleged "democratic principles." The move comes after the Knesset’s National Security Committee approved the bill last Tuesday in its final committee reading. The legislation now heads to the plenary for second and third readings today, which are required for it to pass into law. Israeli public broadcaster reports confirmed the advancement but did not clarify the amendments introduced to the bill. Lawmakers had already approved an earlier version in a first reading last year before revising it. Palestinian officials have raised alarm over the timing of the legislation. Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, said Israel is exploiting global focus on the war with Iran to intensify crimes in Palestinian territories. He pointed to ongoing killings, abuse, and efforts to push forward the execution law targeting hostages. Barghouti warned that the most dangerous aspect lies in using international distraction and limited media coverage to pass such legislation. He also highlighted escalating repression inside Israeli prisons, where thousands of Palestinian hostages face harsh conditions. He called for stronger Arab and international action to revive solidarity efforts and expose Israel's ongoing crimes against Palestinians. He emphasized that Palestinian resilience remains the key factor in confronting these policies. Meanwhile, Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups issued an urgent appeal to human rights organizations and diplomatic missions. They urged immediate intervention to halt the proposed “execution law” before it becomes official. In a joint statement released last Wednesday, the groups said they had sent multiple communications to international human rights bodies, including the United Nations. They warned of rapid and dangerous developments, not only regarding the legislation but also conditions inside Israeli prisons, which are part of a broader pattern of abuse. The organizations argued that international inaction and systematic failure to uphold legal and moral responsibilities have emboldened Israeli authorities. They said this environment has allowed further escalation and expansion of violations, with the death penalty bill representing a peak in this trajectory. They also renewed calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all Palestinian political detainees and hostages. The groups demanded an end to administrative detention policies and the dismantling of Israel’s military court system, which lacks basic fair trial standards.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67459&slug=european-countries-warn-israel-over-proposed-death-penalty-law-targeting-palestinian-hostages

Quds news - March 25, 2026
{Israel Advances Death Penalty Bill for Palestinian Detainees and Hostages After Knesset Committee Approval
Israel moves closer to approving a death penalty law targeting Palestinian hostages and detainees, as a Knesset committee advances the bill to final votes, raising concerns over mass killings.
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- The Israeli Knesset National Security Committee has approved an infamous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian hostages and detainees, moving it forward for second and third readings required to become law. The proposal comes from the Otzma Yehudit party, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Ben-Gvir said the revised bill removes decision-making power from the government’s legal adviser, giving courts broader authority to issue death sentences against Palestinians. The law targets Palestinian hostages and detainees accused in attacks labeled as “nationalist or security-related.” It does not apply to Jewish suspects accused of killing Palestinians. Israeli officials plan to bring the bill for final votes next week. Lawmakers introduced recent amendments after pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who warned that the earlier version exceeded even US death penalty standards and could expose Israel to diplomatic and legal challenges. According to details published by Israeli media, courts could issue a death sentence even if prosecutors do not request it. Judges would not need a unanimous decision, and a simple majority could approve the sentence. The bill states that executions would be carried out by hanging. A prison guard appointed by the Israeli Prison Service commissioner would perform the execution, while authorities would keep the identity of those involved secret and grant them full legal immunity. Authorities would place victims in separate detention facilities. Officials would restrict visits to authorized parties only, while lawyers would communicate with hostages and detainees through video calls instead of direct meetings. The law also sets a timeline of up to 90 days to carry out executions after sentencing. A prison director, a judicial representative, an official observer, and a family representative would attend the execution. The latest draft removes references to prosecuting those involved in the October 7, resistance operation. However, it expands the powers of prosecutors and introduces stricter rules, especially in the occupied West Bank, where the death penalty could become mandatory in certain cases. Ben-Gvir has long pushed for executing Palestinian hostages. His ministry has already tightened detention conditions, amid growing reports by human rights groups about abuse, torture, and denial of basic rights. The Knesset previously approved the bill in its first reading in November. It now awaits final votes before it can become law.} Source: https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67434&slug=israel-advances-death-penalty-bill-for-palestinian-detainees-and-hostages-after-knesset-committee-approval
 

islamophobia
Al Jazeera - March 9, 2026 By Anealla Safdar
{UK media biased against Muslims, says group that analysed 40,000 articles
Centre for Media Monitoring reports right-wing outlets Spectator and GB News often malign Muslims and their faith.
London, United Kingdom – As anti-Muslim hate crimes rise in Britain, so too does biased coverage of Muslims in the media, a new study suggests. The Centre for Media Monitoring, a nonprofit organisation that examines how Muslims and Islam are portrayed in the media, said in a report released on Monday that of about 40,000 articles it assessed from 30 outlets, 70 percent associated Muslims or Islam with negative aspects or behaviours. “As the largest study of its kind ever conducted in the UK, this report presents deeply concerning evidence of structural bias in how Muslims are portrayed in the UK press,” said Rizwana Hamid, the group’s director. The report said almost half of the articles published about Muslims in the UK, or about 20,000, contained a “high degree of bias”. The data point to a “systemic problem within our media ecosystem”, Hamid said. “When entire communities are repeatedly framed through lenses of suspicion or threat, it inevitably shapes public attitudes, political debate and the everyday lives of British Muslims”. News organisations that address the concerns and interests of right-wing voters in Britain were more likely to produce biased coverage about Muslims, the report found. The organisation named The Spectator magazine and GB News television channel as the “worst across all five bias categories” – negative coverage, generalisations, misrepresentations, contextual omissions and problematic headlines – as well as newspapers such as The Telegraph, Jewish Chronicle, Daily Express, The Sun, Daily Mail and The Times. “Harmful coverage is not incidental among these outlets,” the report read. At the other end of the scale, the outlets least likely to produce biased coverage maligning Muslims and their faith were: ITV, the Metro newspaper, BBC, the PA news agency, The Guardian, The Associated Press, London Evening Standard and Sky News.
Rise of racism with echoes of the past
The study was released as Muslims across Britain face increasing hostility, in part due to the rising popularity of hard-right public figures and swelling anti-immigration sentiment. “Extensive research has shown correlations between negative portrayals of Muslims and rising hate crime, employment discrimination, and support for restrictive policies,” the report said. In October, the UK reported that religious hate crimes against Muslims rose 19 percent during the year ending in March 2025 compared with the previous period. The Home Office said anti-Muslim hate crimes spiked after the 2024 Southport mass stabbing at a girls dance class, which agitators on social media had blamed on a fictitious Muslim migrant. Recently, mosques have been targeted, and British Muslims as well as other ethnic minority groups have reported a growing sense of unease and insecurity as a sense of nationalism grows in line with the growth of the far-right Reform UK party. Observers said the kind of racism returning to the UK has echoes of the discrimination witnessed in the 1970s and 1980s. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told ITV late last year that it was “tearing our country apart”. The Centre for Media Monitoring said in one example it studied, right-wing media amplified a claim by United States President Donald Trump that London was governed by “Sharia law”. Trump in September told the United Nations General Assembly: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed. It’s been so changed. … Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you are in a different country. You can’t do that.” While The Metro fact-checked the claim and The Independent provided contextualised commentary, “opinion-let outlets such as the Daily Express went further by treating the conspiracy as credible”, the report said. “Presenting baseless claims as matters of debate normalises misinformation and fuels anti-Muslim narratives, underscoring the media’s responsibility to challenge falsehoods decisively rather than inadvertently legitimising them,” the group said.}: Video - Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/uk-media-bias-muslims

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