{"id":368776,"date":"2026-04-01T05:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/368776\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:03:07","slug":"applying-israels-death-penalty-law-would-be-a-war-crime-u-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/368776\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying Israel&#8217;s death penalty law would be a \u2018war crime\u2019: U.N."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      GENEVA \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>The United Nations on Tuesday harshly criticized the Israeli parliament\u2019s approval of a \u201ccruel and discriminatory\u201d new death penalty bill, warning that applying it in occupied Palestinian territory \u201cwould constitute a war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, passed in parliament late Monday, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank convicted by military courts of carrying out deadly attacks classified as \u201cterrorism\u201d will face the death penalty as a default sentence.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said the world body stood \u201cagainst the death penalty in all its aspects, wherever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENEVA \u2013 The United Nations on Tuesday harshly criticized the Israeli parliament\u2019s approval of a \u201ccruel and discriminatory\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6603,50,85,46,47,43,2200,4374,177559,14753],"class_list":{"0":"post-368776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-antonio-guterres","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-palestinians","15":"tag-u-s","16":"tag-volker-turk","17":"tag-war-crimes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368776","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=368776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}