JAKARTA - The Palestinian independence fighters, Hamas, condemned the passing of a death penalty law targeting Palestinian citizens by the Israeli Parliament.
Hamas in its statement said the law was a "dangerous precedent" that threatened the lives of Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
"This decision reaffirms the occupation [of Israel] and the contempt of its leaders for international law and their disregard for all humanitarian norms and conventions," Hamas said in a statement quoted by Al Jazeera, Tuesday, March 31.
The group called on the international community, including the United Nations (UN) and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to immediately take action to protect Palestinian prisoners from Israeli "brutality".
Separately, the executive director of the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked, Tal Steiner, said the law was "extreme, discriminatory and racist".
"It is very clear that this bill will apply to Palestinians, never to Jews, and will also apply to the occupied [Palestinian] territories, which in itself is a violation of the Geneva Convention. So there are already many deviations from international law there," he said.
According to him, the law is very extreme. "There is really no comparison even with regimes where the death penalty still exists," said Steiner.
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