Ben Gvir Calls on Parliamentary Factions to Support the "Death Penalty Law"

SadaNews - Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said: "History will hold accountable anyone who dares to raise a finger today against the death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners."

He added: "I expect all parliamentary factions to put politics aside and support the death penalty law."

"Israel Hayom" reported that the Knesset is voting today on the first reading of a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners.

According to Israeli media, the explanatory memorandum of the bill states that "resistors who are convicted of murder for nationalistic reasons, in circumstances indicating that the act was committed with the intention of harming the State of Israel, shall be sentenced to death mandatorily, not optionally, and not according to the judge's discretion. Rather, it is a mandatory penalty."

The bill also stipulates an amendment to the existing law to allow the imposition of the death penalty by a majority of judges' opinions, and the sentence of anyone who is sentenced to death cannot be mitigated.

Israel Hayom also reported that Rabbi Dov Landau urged the Haredi parties to vote against the death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners.