Israel’s death penalty law is not about executing Palestinians
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By Mariam Barghouti
Published on April 2, 2026.
Israel has passed a death penalty law allowing it to hang those convicted of "terror offences within a 90-day period, a move seen as part of a strategy of elimination for Palestinians. The law was passed amid heightened Israeli violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with at least 87 Palestinian detainees killed in what human rights organisations describe as a network of torture camps. This 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 move is seen as a pattern of impunity for organised sexual violence, while Palestinians are now subject to execution within 90 days in a military court system that convicts 96 percent of Palestinians based on confessions extracted through torture. The most dangerous element of this law is its discriminatory structure and logic encoded within it, which allows for the death penalty or life sentence on a person who intentionally causes the death of another with the intent of harming a citizen or resident of Israel, with the intention of rejecting the existence of the State of Israel.
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