Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates emphasized the "urgent need to refrain from measures" that risk further inflaming tensions on the ground.
Eight Muslim-majority countries "strongly condemned" Israel's move to pass a law making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinian terrorists convicted in military courts, a joint statement released by Pakistan said on Thursday.
Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, in the statement, also emphasized the "urgent need to refrain from measures" that risk further inflaming tensions on the ground.
The countries' ministers warned the law is a "dangerous escalation," citing its "discriminatory application against Palestinian prisoners."
The Knesset passed the Death Penalty for Terrorists Law on Monday evening, with 62 lawmakers voting in favor while 48 voted against, and one abstained.
Who will be executed under Ben-Gvir's bill?
The bill, which was sponsored by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit Party, would, according to its proponents, act as a deterrent against terror and serve a measure of justice for victims of terrorism.
Ben-Gvir has pushed for the legislation since the start of his tenure as national security minister, repeatedly stating that its passage was a condition of Otzma Yehudit’s coalition agreement with Netanyahu.
The updated outline of the bill proposes that executions for terrorists would be carried out by hanging, implemented by the Israel Prison Service.
The bill stipulates that a terrorist who intentionally kills a person as part of an act of terrorism will be sentenced to death.
From the outset, Ben-Gvir wanted an automatic death penalty for terrorism convictions, and that was the outline passed in the first reading. The revised version stipulates that a judge would decide between capital punishment and life in prison.
Terrorists from the West Bank, however, would still get the automatic death penalty, barring specific appeals.
latest_posts
- 1
6 Monetary Arranging Administrations for Your Necessities - 2'Stranger Things' Season 5: When does Volume 2 come out? And Volume 3? Everything to know about the remaining episodes before the finale.
- 3Beating Scholastic Difficulties: Understudy Examples of overcoming adversity
- 4Minnesota jury says Johnson & Johnson owes $65.5 million to woman with cancer who used talcum powder
- 5Vote in favor of your Favored Travel Movement
- Carrying on with a Sans plastic Way of life: Individual Examinations in Maintainability
- Vote In favor of Your Number one Savvy Beds
- 8 key takeaways from Savannah Guthrie's 'Today' interview on the disappearance of her mother
- I went to Japan during peak cherry blossom season and found an easy way to escape the crowds at popular tourist attractions
- Three arrested in Paris after attempted bomb attack outside Bank of America
- Politics at the table? Drinking the wine you brought? An etiquette expert's Thanksgiving dos and don'ts.
- Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
- San Francisco mayor says city in talks to bring pandas back to zoo ahead of trip to Asia
- Extreme Manual for Picking a Camper Van
