Israel advances Palestinians-only death penalty bill
Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons have entered their third week of disobedience to protest brutal measures enforced by Israel’s ultra-far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The minister is “fighting us with our bread and water,” the prisoners’ leadership said, referring to punishments that include even controlling their showers.
Ben-Gvir announced a series of punitive measures as Israeli lawmakers last week advanced a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinians who kill Israelis.
The government-backed bill passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset alongside another similar measure, according to The Times of Israel. It is expected that the two will be merged into a single piece of legislation.
If passed into law, it would permit courts to put Palestinians who killed Israelis to death if they did so out of so-called nationalistic motivations.
“However, it would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian,” according to The Times of Israel, underscoring the openly racist and apartheid nature of Israel’s rule over the Palestinian people.
The death penalty legislation was one of Ben-Gvir’s key campaign promises.
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