Back on the fact of the week in Israel: the vote in parliament on a text introducing the death penalty for the perpetrators of anti-Israeli terrorist assassinations.
Back on the fact of the week in Israel: the vote in parliament on a text introducing the death penalty for the perpetrators of anti-Israeli terrorist assassinations.
As humanitarian and human rights organisations working for years in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, we are appalled by the decision of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament) approving a bill that effectively makes the death penalty mandatory in the West Bank and that de facto will apply only to Palestinian people. On 30 March, the Knesset adopted a bill, put forward by the party of the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir,…