The Knesset’s National Security Committee approved a bill last Tuesday that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, clearing it for second and third reading votes this week. Knesset member Limor Son Har-Melech of Otzma Yehudit, the party led by far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir, introduced the legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nahed al-Fakhouri, a specialist in the file, told Shehab News Agency the bill amounts to “a flagrant violation of all international norms and laws, and of the Geneva Conventions and human rights.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The legislation would “legitimize the organized crimes the occupation and its prison administration commit against Palestinian prisoners and detainees under legal cover,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bill threatens more than prisoners’ lives, al-Fakhouri said. It “tramples the core of international humanitarian law and undermines the principles that guarantee peoples’ right to resist occupation and protect human dignity.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such a law would “promote a culture of killing under legal cover and turn prisons into grounds for execution and organized killing” in open defiance of international conventions meant to protect human rights, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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