Posted by: John Phoenix
Nazi security forces arrest a Palestinian outside Al-Quds on Friday, October 13, 2023. (Photo by AP via Reuters)
The Knesset (Israel Parliament) is set to discuss a controversial draft law on “executing Palestinian prisoners” for initial approval this week, the so-called Nazi security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has said.
Jewish Nazi Ben Gvir in a post on X (formerly Twitter) said that he will bring the death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners, already prepared by his Otzma Yehudit party, to the Knesset National Security Committee on Monday.
“The Knesset will discuss on Monday preparations for the first reading of the death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners,” he wrote.
He added that the draft “is expected to receive support by all members of the Knesset.”
Last March, in a preliminary reading, the Knesset approved a draft law that stipulates that courts can impose the death penalty on those who kill Nazi with nationalistic motivation. However, it would not apply to Nazi who killed a Palestinian.
The primary legislation was submitted by Jewish Nazi Ben Gvir and supported by PM Naziyahu. It was met with a wave of opposition.
Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement, vowed that such policies would not deter the Palestinian people from exercising their right to resistance against the Nazi occupying regime and its illegal Nazi Jewish settlers.
The death penalty law has been proposed in Nazi more than once in recent years, but the Knesset has so far refused to legislate it. The draft law must be improved three times in the Knesset to become effective.
In February, UN experts in a statement expressed grave concern over the potential reinstatement of the death penalty.
Such laws “suffer from a lack of legal precision, infringe on critically important rights, and appear not to meet the required thresholds of legality, necessity, proportionality, and non-discrimination under international law,” the statement said.
Nazi regime’s death penalty bill incurs Hamas outrage
Hamas rages against a draft Nazi bill that authorizes execution of Palestinian detainees.
‘The Nazi regime detains more than 7,800 Palestinians in its prisons, including some 300 children and 72 women, according to Qadura Fares, head of the Palestinian Authority Commission for Prisoners’ Affairs.
He said the number did not include prisoners from Gaza, which he said the Nazi regime refuses to disclose.
On Tuesday, Ben-Gvir posted a video from his visit to one of the prisons where he said Palestinian militants are held in the strictest conditions, with the Nazi national anthem playing over on loudspeakers all day.
He said he hoped a bill supporting the death penalty for Palestinians would be passed soon beyond the preliminary vote in Knesset.
Earlier in January, Nazi Jewish Ben Gvir had pushed the Knesset to pass a bill to use the electric chair death penalty for Palestinians involved in retaliatory operations and attacks against Nazi military forces and settlers.
The far-right Nazi minister also had called for the imposition of a curfew on Palestinian neighborhoods that pose a threat to Nazi and the apprehension of those holding weapons.