{"id":274402,"date":"2026-02-04T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274402\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:13:09","slug":"un-experts-urge-israel-to-withdraw-proposed-mandatory-death-penalty-bill-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274402\/","title":{"rendered":"UN experts urge Israel to withdraw proposed mandatory death penalty bill \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN human rights experts on Wednesday urged Israel to withdraw a proposed bill introducing mandatory death sentences for certain terrorist acts, warning it would violate international law and disproportionately target Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMandatory death sentences are contrary to the right to life. By removing judicial and prosecutorial discretion, they prevent a court from considering the individual circumstances, including mitigating factors, and from imposing a proportionate sentence that fits the crime,\u201d the experts said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the bill creates two tracks. In the occupied West Bank, military courts would impose the death penalty for acts causing death, even if unintended. In Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, it would apply only to the \u201cintentional killing of Israeli citizens or residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20260113-knesset-approves-bill-allowing-death-penalty-for-palestinians-over-7-october-attack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knesset approves bill allowing death penalty for Palestinians over 7 October attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The experts said vague and broad definitions of terrorism could capture conduct \u201cthat is not genuinely terrorist,\u201d while making capital punishment mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>They warned that \u201cunintentional killings are not \u2018most serious\u2019 crimes\u201d under international law and said Israeli military trials \u201ctypically do not meet fair trial standards,\u201d adding: \u201cDenial of a fair trial is also a war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would also allow death sentences by a simple majority of military judges, bar pardons, restrict access to legal counsel, and mandate hanging within 90 days. \u201cHanging amounts to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment under international law,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge Israel to put an end to the death penalty, in line with the global trend towards abolition,\u201d the experts concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN human rights experts on Wednesday urged Israel to withdraw a proposed bill introducing mandatory death sentences for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-274402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}