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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">ONGOING URGENT APPEAL: STOP THE EXECUTION OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS\u2019 LAW</h1>
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<div><p><span><span><span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>ONGOING URGENT APPEAL: STOP THE EXECUTION OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS\u2019 LAW </span></span></b></span></span></span><br>
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<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN-US">Palestinian Prisoner\u2019s Society, Commission of Detainees\u2019 Affairs & Addameer </span><span>Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span lang="EN-US">March 29, 2026</span></span></span></span><br>
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<p><span><span><span><b><span>Ramallah, occupied Palestine \u2013</span></b><span>
On Monday, March 30, the Israeli occupation\u2019s proposed \u201cPrisoners\u2019
Execution Law\u201d is expected to be brought forward for its second and
third readings in the Knesset, with a high likelihood of passage\u2014despite
sustained global appeals and unequivocal warnings from international
human rights institutions condemning its adoption.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>If enacted, this bill will mark a historic
escalation\u2014a 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\u2014rendering the occupation\u2019s prisons and
detention camps a direct extension of genocidal policies and a central
theater for their execution.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>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 \u201cIsrael\u201d accountable. After years of calculated
advancement by the regime\u2014now reaching its brutal apex amid the
genocide\u2014this bill has become inseparable from the government\u2019s
political survival. The gallows are no longer symbolic; they are being
institutionalized as a central tool of oppression and settler-colonial
violence.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>Under the most \u201cextreme\u201d and openly
ideological government in the settler-colony\u2019s 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\u2014elevating the execution of prisoners
into an explicit political doctrine and a defining pillar of the regime.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>For decades, occupation authorities have
practiced extrajudicial killing as a sustained policy\u2014now risen to
unprecedented levels. This includes targeted assassinations, a
\u201cshoot-to-kill\u201d 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\u2014marking the deadliest period in the history of the Palestinian
prisoners\u2019 movement.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><b><span>Based on information gathered by our
organizations and others, here is an initial set of facts surrounding
the execution of Palestinian prisoners bill: </span></b></span></span></span></p>
<ul><li><span><span><span><span>The law will not be applied retroactively; it will only take effect after its implementation. </span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span>It will include two separate court systems:
Military courts in the 1967-occupied Palestinian territories and
civilian courts in the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories (\u201cIsrael\u201d).
</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span>In \u201cIsraeli\u201d military courts, Palestinian
prisoners \u201cconvicted\u201d of carrying out armed operations resulting in the
death of an \u201cIsraeli\u201d would face a mandatory death sentence, unless the
court identifies exceptional circumstances warranting commutation to
life imprisonment. </span></span></span></span><br>
<ul><li><span><span><span><span>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. </span></span></span></span></li></ul>
</li><li><span><span><span><span>In \u201cIsraeli\u201d civil courts, however, a
prisoner "convicted" carrying out armed operations resulting in the
death of an \u201cIsraeli\u201d 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.</span></span></span></span></li><li><span><span><span><span>Although this law will not apply to
prisoners detained in connection with October 7, 2023 whom the
occupation classifies as \u201celite,\u201d </span><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></span></span></span></li></ul>
<p><span><span><span><span>This push to formalize the execution of
Palestinian prisoners is not incidental\u2014it 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\u2019s prisons and
detention camps are not merely sites of imprisonment\u2014they are central
infrastructures of state murder and violence. Stop the execution of
Palestinian political prisoners\u2019s law before it is too late. </span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>#STOPTHEEXECUTIONOFPALESTINIANPRISONERS</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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