[Pnews] Ongoing Urgent Appeal: Stop the Execution of Palestinian Prisoners’ Law

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ONGOING URGENT APPEAL: STOP THE EXECUTION OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ LAW
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29-03-2026

*ONGOING URGENT APPEAL: STOP THE EXECUTION OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ LAW *


Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, Commission of Detainees’ Affairs &
Addameer Prisoner
Support and Human Rights Association

March 29, 2026


*Ramallah, occupied Palestine –* On Monday, March 30, the Israeli
occupation’s proposed “Prisoners’ Execution Law” is expected to be brought
forward for its second and third readings in the Knesset, with a high
likelihood of passage—despite sustained global appeals and unequivocal
warnings from international human rights institutions condemning its
adoption.

If enacted, this bill will mark a historic escalation—a new phase of openly
sanctioned, politically motivated executions of Palestinian prisoners. It
codifies state-sanctioned political murder and turns prisons into legalized
killing grounds and central arenas of torture. Make no mistake: its passage
would make it an extension of a multi-pronged system of genocide that has
targeted Palestinian existence for decades—rendering the occupation’s
prisons and detention camps a direct extension of genocidal policies and a
central theater for their execution.

The law constitutes a profound violation of fundamental human rights and
exposes decades of international complicity, lack of will, failure, and
refusal to hold the settler-colony of “Israel” accountable. After years of
calculated advancement by the regime—now reaching its brutal apex amid the
genocide—this bill has become inseparable from the government’s political
survival. The gallows are no longer symbolic; they are being
institutionalized as a central tool of oppression and settler-colonial
violence.

Under the most “extreme” and openly ideological government in the
settler-colony’s history, the drive to pass this law has accelerated with
alarming force. Led by minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and backed by a dominant
right-wing bloc in the Knesset, the government has staked its very survival
on its passage, with full backing from Benjamin Netanyahu—elevating the
execution of prisoners into an explicit political doctrine and a defining
pillar of the regime.

For decades, occupation authorities have practiced extrajudicial killing as
a sustained policy—now risen to unprecedented levels. This includes
targeted assassinations, a “shoot-to-kill” policy and sniper fire.
Alongside these overt acts, a quieter but equally lethal system of both
slow and direct killings operates within prisons, camps, and interrogation
centers, where neglect, abuse, and torture systematically claim lives.
Since the start of the genocide alone, more than 100 prisoners have been
killed behind bars—marking the deadliest period in the history of the
Palestinian prisoners’ movement.

*Based on information gathered by our organizations and others, here is an
initial set of facts surrounding the execution of Palestinian prisoners
bill: *

   - The law will not be applied retroactively; it will only take effect
   after its implementation.
   - It will include two separate court systems: Military courts in the
   1967-occupied Palestinian territories and civilian courts in the
   1948-occupied Palestinian territories (“Israel”).
   - In “Israeli” military courts, Palestinian prisoners “convicted” of
   carrying out armed operations resulting in the death of an “Israeli” would
   face a mandatory death sentence, unless the court identifies exceptional
   circumstances warranting commutation to life imprisonment.
   - Prisoners would retain the right to appeal; however, rulings would be
      decided by a simple majority rather than unanimity, and judges
would not be
      required to hold senior military rank.
   - In “Israeli” civil courts, however, a prisoner "convicted" carrying
   out armed operations resulting in the death of an “Israeli” faces a
   sentence of either life imprisonment or death; this legal hierarchy
   effectively transforms the death penalty into a primary and fundamental
   punishment against Palestinians.
   - Although this law will not apply to prisoners detained in connection
   with October 7, 2023 whom the occupation classifies as “elite,” a
   Knesset committee has approved a separate bill titled the "Law on the Trial
   of Participants in the October 7 Events." This bill establishes a special
   military tribunal that is likewise empowered to impose the death penalty,
   alongside other measures.

This push to formalize the execution of Palestinian prisoners is not
incidental—it is the logical continuation and legal codification of
ongoing, unchecked genocidal mass violence and erasure. The law is one
among a wide arsenal of measures designed to entrench domination, crush
Palestian society, and normalize the systematic murder of Palestinians. The
occupation’s prisons and detention camps are not merely sites of
imprisonment—they are central infrastructures of state murder and violence.
Stop the execution of Palestinian political prisoners’s law before it is
too late.

*#STOPTHEEXECUTIONOFPALESTINIANPRISONERS*

*#FREETHEMALL*
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