UN experts condemn Israel’s death penalty law against Palestinians, urge immediate repeal

UN experts on Thursday condemned a new Israeli law enabling the death penalty against Palestinians, warning it constitutes a discriminatory system that violates international human rights law, Anadolu reports. “Israel’s new law, effectively providing for the death penalty solely against Palestinians, constitutes a discriminatory regime of capital punishment and manifestly violates Israel’s obligations under international human rights law,” the experts said in a statement. “We condemn the Knesset’s adoption of this law and call for its immediate repeal,” they said. “This law marks a grave escalation in Israel’s discriminatory oppression of Palestinians.” The statement was signed by UN special rapporteurs on extrajudicial executions, the occupied Palestinian territory, counterterrorism and human rights, and violence against women and girls. They warned that […]