Overview
- The Knesset, which approved the measure Monday in a 62–48 vote, mandated death sentences in military courts for Palestinians convicted of terrorist‑motivated murders in the occupied territories.
- The law orders executions by hanging within 90 days of conviction, with a possible delay to 180 days in special cases.
- Israel’s Association for Civil Rights filed a Supreme Court petition soon after the vote, and legal experts say mandatory death sentences and unequal application could fail constitutional review.
- European governments and the EU Commission condemned the law as discriminatory, while the United States said it respects Israel’s sovereign right to set its laws.
- Critics warn the policy will fall almost entirely on Palestinians and risk damage to ties with European bodies, a stark turn in a country that has not carried out an execution since Adolf Eichmann in 1962.