This came in response to the approval by the Knesset's (Israeli parliament) National Security Committee on Monday of a draft law that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, and its referral for a first reading vote, which Hebrew media expects to take place next Wednesday.
The Palestinian Prisoners Club (a non-governmental organization) said in a statement that "the occupation has never stopped carrying out extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, whether through deliberate execution during arrest, interrogation, assassination, or fatal medical negligence, as part of a systematic pattern of medical crimes."
He continued: "What is happening today is nothing but an additional step to consolidate a crime that has existed and been practiced for decades, by legitimizing it through laws, legislation and military orders."
The club noted that “since the start of the war on October 8, 2023, until the beginning of November, Israel has killed 81 Palestinians in its prisons, and these are only the ones that have been announced, in addition to dozens of detainees from the Gaza Strip who were executed.”
"fascist"
For its part, Hamas on Monday considered the approval by the National Security Committee in the Israeli Knesset of a bill to execute Palestinian prisoners as “an embodiment of the fascist face of the occupation,” and called on the international community to form a committee to look into their conditions in light of what has been leaked of “horrific violations revealed by the rape video in Sde Teiman prison.”
Hamas said in a statement: “The approval by the National Security Committee of the Zionist Knesset of the draft law to execute Palestinian prisoners, and its referral to the Knesset for a vote, is an embodiment of the ugly fascist face of the rogue Zionist occupation.”
She also considered this ratification to be an Israeli further violation of international laws, particularly the provisions of international humanitarian law and the Third Geneva Convention, which set rules for the protection of prisoners in armed conflicts.
The Israeli bill stipulates "the death penalty for anyone who intentionally or negligently causes the death of an Israeli citizen motivated by racism or hatred and to harm Israel."
The bill is scheduled to be voted on in the Israeli Knesset in its first reading on Wednesday, as any bill must pass three readings in the Knesset before it becomes law.
More than 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, including children and women, are held in Israeli prisons, where they suffer torture, starvation, and medical neglect, which has led to the death of many of them, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights and media reports.
The parliamentary groundwork for the execution of prisoners comes as Palestinians suffer the consequences of a genocidal war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip for two years since October 8, 2023, in addition to a bloody and destructive aggression on the occupied West Bank.
