{"id":400285,"date":"2026-04-19T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/400285\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:08:08","slug":"moroccans-protest-israel-death-penalty-law-at-pro-palestinian-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/400285\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccans protest Israel death penalty law at pro-Palestinian rally"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Updated 45 min 27 sec ago <\/p>\n

\n April 19, 2026 13:57 <\/p>\n

\n Moroccans protest Israel death penalty law at pro-Palestinian rally\n <\/p>\n

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The crowd of around 5,000 people marched down the capital\u2019s Mohammed V Avenue in the center of town
\n The protest was called by the National Action Group for Palestine<\/p>\n

\n Updated 45 min 27 sec ago <\/p>\n

\n AFP <\/p>\n

\n April 19, 2026 13:57 <\/p>\n

\n\tRABAT: Thousands of Moroccans gathered in Rabat on Sunday to voice their support for the Palestinian cause and protest a new Israeli law that would allow the execution of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.
The crowd of around 5,000 people marched down the capital\u2019s Mohammed V Avenue in the center of town, with many carrying Palestinian and Moroccan flags, AFP journalists reported.
The protest was called by the National Action Group for Palestine, which brings together supporters of the Justice and Development party and left-wing activists.
Marchers chanted \u201cno to the death penalty\u201d and \u201cno to occupation and Zionism,\u201d as well as slogans criticizing Israel\u2019s conduct of the war in Gaza.
\u201cWe\u2019re sending our support to Palestinian prisoners who are threatened by this new law on the death penalty,\u201d said Aziz El Hannaoui, a member of the organizing coalition.
The Israeli law makes the death penalty the default punishment for Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank found guilty of intentionally carrying out deadly attacks deemed \u201cacts of terrorism\u201d by an Israeli military court.
It also allows the death penalty to be applied in murder cases tried in Israeli criminal courts if the perpetrator intended to \u201cput an end to the existence of the State of Israel.\u201d
Critics have said that by effectively creating a separate legal track for Palestinians, the law appears to conflict with Israel\u2019s Basic Laws, which prohibit arbitrary discrimination.
After its passage, the law was condemned by the Palestinian Authority, activists and several foreign governments, and immediately drew a court challenge.
While the death penalty exists for a small number of crimes in Israel, it has become a de facto abolitionist country \u2014 the Nazi Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann was the last person to be executed in 1962.
The protesters in Rabat on Sunday also renewed their criticism of Morocco\u2019s normalization of ties with Israel in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated 45 min 27 sec ago April 19, 2026 13:57 Moroccans protest Israel death penalty law at pro-Palestinian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-400285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400285","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=400285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}