Israel's parliament approves death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis
發佈日期: 2026-04-01 21:51
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Israeli police used a water cannon to disperse dozens of protesters in Jerusalem Tuesday, after Israel's parliament approved the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.
Police in Jerusalem using a water cannon against two protesters. Other protesters look on. The two carry on holding up their banner undeterred.
But it was all too much for one man.
This man says "A disgraceful law in shame and disgrace that the Israeli Knesset legislates such a law"
This man calling through a megaphone "No death, no gallows" and another holding up a banner reading 'Palestinian Lives Matter.'
Protester Luis Frankertar said: "I came to protest the passage of this horrific death penalty law which discriminates between Jews and Palestinians, which is an ethnic cleansing law, which is a racist law, which is a law that's just mean to oppress Palestinians more and more."
Israel's parliament Monday passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure that has been harshly condemned by the international community and rights groups
as discriminatory and inhumane.
The passage of the bill marked the culmination of a years-long drive by the far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis.
Minutes after the bill passed, the Association of Civil Rights in Israel said it had already petitioned Israel's highest court to challenge the law.
Attorney Elza Bugnet from the Legal Department at The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said, the law is particularly cruel and barbaric. "It's tailored to the measures of Palestinians which makes it so extremely discriminatory and unequal. As part of this, it also severely undermines the right to a fair trial by depriving defendants especially those tried in military courts in the West Bank of very basic procedural rights," she said.
Prime Minister Netanyahu was sitting between Defense Minister Israel Katz and Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi ahead of the announcement.
The bill passed its final vote in the Israeli parliament late Monday to cheers and applause.
