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The Gallows Law: Israel Moves Toward Executing Palestinian Children
Human rights groups say the law could expose Palestinian minors as young as 12 to execution and sharply restrict appeals.
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The Gallows Law: Israel Moves Toward Executing Palestinian Children
According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take some by surprise, or even be dismissed as an exaggeration. Sadly, it is neither.
Human rights lawyer and director of the DDH Balasan Initiative, Dalia Qumsieh, and the Israeli MP, Aida Touma-Suleiman, discussed with La Tercera about the scope of the law that was passed by the Israeli Parliament that allows the death penalty for Palestinians and the situation in the West Bank, with an increase in violence and a deterioration in the economic situation.Dalia Qumsieh, DD lawyer.
Adoption of death penalty law by the Israeli Knesset requires urgent EU measures
Human Rights and Humanitatian Organisations Call the EU to Uphold it Principles and Legal Obligations. Statement On March 30th, 2026, the Israeli Knesset voted to expand the use of the death penalty in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. In response, CIDSE joined other human rights and humanitarian organisations in calling on the EU to uphold its stated principles and legal obligations by suspending the trade component of the EU-Israel Associat…
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