{"id":368694,"date":"2026-04-01T03:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/368694\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:51:11","slug":"palestine-rights-group-decries-proposed-israel-death-penalty-bill-jurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/368694\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine rights group decries proposed Israel death penalty bill – JURIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) on Monday denounced<\/a> a proposed Israeli death penalty bill, which recently underwent a second and third reading in the Knesset<\/a>, claiming it represents \u201can extreme escalation in Israel\u2019s genocidal policies against Palestinians.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00d3rlaith Roe<\/a>, ICJP\u2019s public affairs and communications officer, spoke critically of the proposed legislation, stating:<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s targeted killing of Palestinians is\u00a0part of a longstanding and deeply disturbing pattern.\u00a0The\u00a0death penalty bill\u00a0contravenes the very foundations of international\u00a0law and marks a draconian escalation in Israel\u2019s codification of ethnic cleansing policies against Palestinians.\u00a0It\u00a0not only\u00a0constitutes\u00a0a direct assault on the right to\u00a0life, but\u00a0does so\u00a0in a manner that is both openly discriminatory and grossly disproportionate.<\/p>\n

The Knesset has recently discussed<\/a> two controversial bills. One would expand death penalty sentencing by amending the Israeli Penal Law<\/a> 5737-1977 and defense regulations applied to the occupied West Bank. The other would introduce special provisions and an ad hoc military court to prosecute those allegedly involved in the October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel.<\/p>\n

The proposed legislation aims to impose<\/a> the death penalty as a mandatory sentence for any person who willfully or negligently causes the death of an Israeli citizen out of a motive of racism or hostility toward the public, aiming to harm Israel and the Jewish people. However the sentencing provision would only apply in military courts that oversee cases involving West Bank Palestinians, and Israelis accused of similar terrorist acts would likely face lower sentencing standards.<\/p>\n

Human rights organizations earlier in January this year warned<\/a> that the proposed bills may constitute some of the most extreme and dangerous legislative measures ever proposed by Israel against Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Although several provisions of Israeli law allow for the imposition of the death penalty, both in Israel and the West Bank, Israel has become a de facto abolitionist state with respect to formal capital punishment, having not carried out the death penalty since 1962. However, if brought to the floor, passage is highly<\/a> likely given broad political support across both coalition and opposition parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) on Monday denounced a proposed Israeli death penalty bill, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-368694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368694","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=368694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}