Israel Passes Bill to Execute Palestinian Resistance Prisoners

Featured image: Protest against the recently passed death penalty bill. The demonstrators hold pictures of prominent Palestinian resistance leaders. Source: Associated Press.

On Monday, Israel’s parliament, passed the “Penal Bill (Amendment ― Death Penalty for Terrorists),” making the controversial legislation the law of the land. A total of 62 of 120 lawmakers voted to approve the bill on Monday, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while 48 voted against it. The rest abstained or were not present for the vote.

The new law establishes that “a person who intentionally causes the death of another with the aim of harming a citizen or resident of Israel, with the intent of rejecting the existence of the State of Israel — his sentence shall be death or life imprisonment, and only one of these penalties.” Palestinians in the occupied West Bank convicted of terrorism in military courts will face a mandatory death sentence, as in the wording of the bill is stated “… his sentence shall be death, and this penalty only.“

The genocidal State of Israel attempts in this way to deter the people of Palestine to continue resisting the Israeli attacks, either in the Gaza Strip or in the West Bank. Despite this new law, the Palestinian resistance factions condemned the law, and Abu Obeida, the military spokesman of the Al-Qassam Brigades, on Tuesday called on the Lebanese resistance to increase its efforts to capture Israeli soldiers, “in order to liberate Palestinian and Arab prisoners from the occupation prisons […] after the approval of the law to execute prisoners.”

The passing of this bill has caused world widespread condemnation. The Palestinians have not showed fear, but on the contrary, they protested in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In Nablus, the protesters chanted slogans for the prisoners, such as “You are the symbol of struggle, You are the symbol of steadfastness”.