Overview
- IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth signed an order that applies the new capital punishment framework to Judea and Samaria military courts after instructions from Defense Minister Yisroel Katz.
- The measure lets military judges sentence convicted attackers to death for terror killings, with death set as the standard punishment for intentional murder in such cases.
- Prosecutors no longer need to request a death sentence, and a regular majority of the judicial panel can impose it instead of a unanimous ruling.
- Limits on the rank of judges in these cases are removed, the regional commander cannot grant pardons or commute sentences, and those sentenced to death are excluded from prisoner swaps.
- Ministers Katz and Itamar Ben-Gvir praised the move as a tougher stance on terror and as the delivery of an Otzma Yehudit campaign promise.