Prisoner Club: The Knesset’s approval of a law to execute Palestinian prisoners reinforces an existing crime

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Prisoner Club: The Knesset’s approval of a law to execute Palestinian prisoners reinforces an existing crime

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club confirmed that the “Security” Committee’s approval In the Israeli Knesset, a draft law allowing the implementation of the death sentence against Palestinian prisoners is nothing but an additional step to consolidate a crime that has existed and been practiced for decades, by “legalizing” it. Through laws, legislation and military orders.

The club said in a statement today, Monday, according to the Palestinian News Agency, “Wafa.” The brutality of the occupying state has reached unprecedented levels, to the point that human rights concepts have become insufficient to describe it, as it has not only killed dozens of prisoners since the outbreak of the genocidal war, but today it seeks to consolidate the crime of death by legislating a special law.

He pointed out that the occupation has never stopped carrying out executions outside the “scope of the law.” Against the Palestinians, whether intentional execution during arrest, investigation, assassination, or fatal medical negligence, within the course of systematic medical crimes, adding that the Israeli colonial system has, over many decades, practiced slow execution policies against hundreds of prisoners inside prisons, through systematic tools and methods that led to the martyrdom of dozens of them, and these policies have witnessed an unprecedented escalation since the beginning of the war of extermination, making the current stage the bloodiest in the history of the Palestinian movement. The prisoner.

In this regard, he explained that the number of captive martyrs in the occupation prisons from the beginning of the war until the beginning of November 2025 reached 81, and they are the only ones announced, in addition to dozens of Gaza detainees who were executed and are still under enforced disappearance, noting that among the most prominent evidence of the ongoing executions are the bodies of the martyrs who were delivered from Gaza after the war, as it turned out that A large number of them were detainees who were later executed, and some of them appeared in video clips while they were alive, before it later became clear that they had been executed and their bodies mutilated.

He explained that the arrival of the legislative process for the Prisoners’ Execution Law to the first reading stage was not a surprise to those following the prisoners’ issue, especially in light of the unprecedented state of brutality practiced by the occupation regime, which is In genocide, while prisons constitute one of the fields of this genocide extending from Gaza to various places of detention.

The statement stressed that despite the clarity of the position of international law, which worked to abolish the death penalty within several international treaties, one of which has a global scope, the occupation’s insistence on legalizing this crime and giving it a character of “legitimacy” Accordingly, he reaffirms that the "occupying state" It acts as if it is above the law and outside the scope of accountability, which is what was revealed by the war of extermination, which demonstrated the inability of the international community and its systematic complicity with the system of colonialism and murder.

It is noteworthy that the "Security" Committee Today, the Israeli Knesset approved a draft law allowing the implementation of death sentences against Palestinian prisoners, and on Sunday, the twenty-ninth of last September, a parliamentary committee affiliated with the Knesset approved the “Execution of Palestinian Prisoners” draft law, in preparation for voting on it in the first reading.

The law is considered part of the agreements that were signed to conclude the deal to form a government coalition headed by the head of the party. "Likud" Benjamin Netanyahu, and the head of “Jewish Power”, Itamar Ben Gvir, late 2022.