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.
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. Grouped from 16 articles across 6 sources.
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Palestinians protest Israel’s new death penalty law
Far-right Israeli politicians celebrated the passage through parliament of a new law which allows execution by hanging, but effectively only for Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinians in occupied West Bank protest Israel’s death penalty law
Families of Palestinian prisoners protested against a bill allowing the death penalty for Palestinians in the West Bank
Global protests condemning Israel’s new death penalty law for Palestinians
Protesters are condemning Israel's new bill that makes the death penalty the default punishment for some Palestinians.
Palestinians in West Bank protest, strike against Israeli death penalty law
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party had called for the strike.
Police disperse Jerusalem protest over Israel’s death penalty law
Israeli police broke up a protest outside parliament in Jerusalem as demonstrators voiced anger over a new law allowing the execution of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.
‘This is an apartheid regime’: Critics decry Israel’s new death penalty law
Celebrations in the Israeli parliament mark the passing of legislation intended to apply to Palestinians only.
West Bank strikes over Palestinian-only death penalty
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank went on a general strike after Israel passed a death penalty law.
General strike empties streets in Ramallah over Israel’s death penalty law
Shops shut and streets fell quiet in Ramallah as a general strike was held in protest against Israel’s newly approved death penalty law targeting Palestinians.
Shops closed across West Bank in general strike against Israel's death penalty law for Palestinians
Thousands marched to protest the passing of the law, which critics have slammed as unjust and demanded it immediately been scrapped.
Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks face death penalty under new Israeli law
The new law, passed on Monday, was pushed hard by the far-right and Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Israeli death penalty law targeting Palestinians sparks global outcry as far right celebrates
Far-right supporters of a controversial Israeli death penalty law were popping champagne corks as it cleared the Knesset on Monday night, but its passage has sparked a global chorus of condemnation.
‘A law of death that only applies to Palestinians’
Protesters demanded UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer act, not just condemn, Israel’s death penalty law for Palestinians.
Watch: Israel's new death penalty law — how it works and why Europe is pushing back
It is a seismic shift in Israeli law. On Monday, the Knesset approved the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israeli citizens. The topic is very serious, and your reporter wants to look beyond the political theatre to the facts.
Israel approves sweeping death penalty legislation targeting terrorism, EU condemns move
Israel's Knesset voted to mandate the death penalty for terrorists convicted of deadly attacks, a shift lawmakers say was driven by the horrors of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Jailed Palestinians fear death by hanging without due process under new Israeli law
The law makes the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks.
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