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Israel’s parliament passes death penalty bill targeting Palestinians

Al Jazeera · · 571 words · By Al Jazeera Staff
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“Israel’s parliament passes death penalty bill targeting Palestinians”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm the claim about Israel's parliament passing a death penalty bill targeting Palestinians.
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“Palestinian Authority calls the bill a ‘war crime’ against Palestinians, says it breaches the Fourth Geneva Convention”
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Wikipedia entries provided are unrelated to the Palestinian Authority's comments on the Fourth Geneva Convention or the death penalty bill.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Studies on the origins of the Palestinians, encompassing the Arab inhabitants of the former Mandatory Palestine and their descendants, are approached through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing from fi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Palestinian Christians (Arabic: مَسِيحِيُّون فِلَسْطِينِيُّون, romanized: Masīḥiyyūn Filasṭīniyyūn) are a religious community of the Palestinian people consisting of those who identify as Christians, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Christians
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Palestinian enclaves are areas in the West Bank designated for Palestinians under a variety of unsuccessful U.S. and Israeli-led proposals to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The enclaves are…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves
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“Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has passed a controversial bill that will instruct military courts to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of “terror”, but will not impose the same penalty on Jewish Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians”
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Wikipedia entries about Israeli politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict do not mention the specific death penalty law or its discriminatory provisions.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Legislative elections are scheduled to be held in Israel by 27 October 2026 to elect the 120 members of the twenty-sixth Knesset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Israeli_legislative_elect…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the confl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
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“The law, which enters into effect within 30 days, was approved on Monday in the 120-seat Knesset by 62 lawmakers, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with 48 voting against it and one abstention”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Legislative elections were held in Israel on 1 November 2022 to elect the 120 members of the 25th Knesset. The results saw the right-wing national camp of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu win …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Israeli_legislative_elect…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli Labor Party (Hebrew: מפלגת העבודה הישראלית, romanized: ), commonly known in Israel as HaAvoda (Hebrew: העבודה, lit. 'The Labor'), was a Labor Zionist and social democratic political party …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Labor_Party
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Naftali Bennett (Hebrew: נַפְתָּלִי בֶּנֶט, romanized: Naftālī Beneṭ [naftaˈli ˈbenet]; born 25 March 1972) is an Israeli politician and businessman who served as the prime minister of Israel from 13 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_Bennett
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“The new law, introduced as Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues, instructs military courts trying only West Bank Palestinians, who are not Israeli citizens, to impose the draconian sentence for lethal attacks on Israelis”
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“Amichai Cohen, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute’s Center for Democratic Values and Institutions, told the Associated Press that 'Jews will not be indicted under this law'”
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“Under international law, he noted, Israel’s parliament should not be legislating in the West Bank, which is not sovereign Israeli territory in spite of the best efforts of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition to annex the territory to Israel”
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“The lawyer for the Knesset’s National Security Committee also raised several concerns during earlier deliberations, noting that it did not allow clemency, contradicting international conventions”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm the Knesset lawyer's concerns about clemency in the death penalty law.
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“Minutes after the law was passed, the Association of Civil Rights in Israel said it had filed a petition with Israel’s Supreme Court to challenge it, describing it as 'discriminatory by design' and 'enacted without legal authority' over West Bank Palestinians”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm the Israeli Civil Rights Association's petition against the law.
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“On its website, the association notes, among other criticisms, that the 'threshold for imposing the death penalty would be lowered', with courts able to impose sentences of death by hanging by simple majority rather than a unanimous decision by judges”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm claims about the law lowering the death penalty threshold.
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“Though Israel technically has the death penalty on the books as a possible punishment for acts of genocide, espionage during wartime, and for certain 'terror' offences, the country hasn’t put anyone to death since Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was executed in 1962”
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“National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir wore a pin featuring a small metal noose on his lapel during the Knesset session”
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“The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom condemned the bill”
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“Amnesty International stated that the death penalty would be another discriminatory tool in Israel’s system of apartheid”
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