JAKARTA - Human rights groups and Palestinian leaders have condemned a new Israeli law passed on the use of the death penalty against convicted Palestinians in terror cases, particularly in the West Bank. The new rules exclude convicted Israeli Jewish citizens.
The bill, which was passed into law yesterday in the Israeli parliament or Knesset, is considered a real product of international and discriminatory violations of international law.
In its rules, this law makes the death penalty by hanging the standard sentence for Palestinians who have been found guilty of killing Israelis in the occupied West Bank.
The law was backed by Jewish far-right extremist politician, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was seen opening a bottle of champagne in the parliamentary chamber in celebration after a 62-48 vote was passed.
"We have made history," Ben-Gvir wrote in a social media post rejecting international calls to repeal the law, Tuesday, March 31, quoted by Al Jazeera.
"And I say to the people of the European Union who have put pressure and threatened the State of Israel: We are not afraid, we will not surrender," he continued.
The law comes amid a surge in attacks by the Israeli military and illegal settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank, as well as thousands of arrests amid the shadow of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said it had appealed the law to Israel's Supreme Court.
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