Mogok kerja besar-besaran berlangsung di Tepi Barat Palestina sebagai langkah protes masyarakat terhadap undang-undang rezim Zionis Israel yang mempermudah dijatuhkannya vonis mati bagi tahanan Palestina.
According to Anadolu correspondent's report, shopping facilities, government and private bodies, banks, campuses, and schools were closed during the strike. Meanwhile, hospitals and bakeries remained open.
Streets in the city of Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority's seat of government, were also empty with shops closed.
The strike was held based on a call from the Fatah movement on Tuesday (31/3) as a comprehensive step to express rejection of the new Zionist law that was passed on Monday (27/3).
According to Fatah, the strike is an urgent effort for Israel to cancel the law, which marks a dangerous escalation and is violence against the Palestinian people.
As reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, April 1, the Palestinian group also urged public mobilization and wider international pressure so that the Zionist regime would withdraw the law.
Israel's legislature on Monday passed the controversial law.
The law stipulates the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of intentional murder of Israelis even without a prosecutor's request or a unanimous decision by a panel of judges.
The new rules also apply in military courts when dealing with cases involving Palestinians in the West Bank, which is still occupied by Israel.
According to the Commission on Prisoners' Affairs, 117 Palestinians currently detained in Israel could be affected by the consequences of the law.
The ratification of the law also received sharp criticism among the Israeli public. A total of 1,200 Israeli figures, including Nobel Prize winners, former military officials, and a former supreme court judge, called the regulation a "moral stain".
Meanwhile, more than 9,500 Palestinians, including 350 children and 73 women, are currently held in Israeli jails, according to Palestinian officials who also suspect the prisoners of suffering torture, starvation, and medical neglect.
Since October 2023, Israel has continued to increase its actions against Palestinian prisoners amid its military aggression in the Gaza Strip, which according to Palestinian authorities has killed more than 72 thousand people and injured another 172 thousand, most of them women and children.
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