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<article data-history-node-id="431006" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-calls-un-stop-draft-israeli-law-execute-palestinian-prisoners" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-calls-un-stop-draft-israeli-law-execute-palestinian-prisoners" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas calls on UN to stop draft Israeli law to execute Palestinian prisoners</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Monday called on the United Nations and human rights organisations to take urgent action to stop the draft law to execute Palestinian prisoners.</p> <p>"We demand the formation of international committees to enter the detention centres, examine the conditions of Palestinian prisoners, and expose the atrocities committed there," the organisation said.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Israeli military is set to appoint a new advocate general after a scandal forced the resignation of its top lawyer, who admitted to leaking footage apparently showing soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee.</p> <p>Knesset's National Security Committee approved a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, local media reported.</p> <p>The committee referred the bill to the Knesset General Assembly for discussion and voting in the upcoming legislative session, reports said.&nbsp;</p> <p>Times of Israel reported that the legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have "committed a nationalistically motivated murder" of a citizen of Israel. It would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

Chris Smalls was among 21 others when he was singled out, detained, and beaten by Israeli forces on Saturday.

Hamdan Ballal won an Oscar for co-directing “No Other Land,” then went home to the West Bank and was attacked and arrested.

<article data-history-node-id="421033" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-israel-has-become-soviet-union-its-dying-days" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-israel-has-become-soviet-union-its-dying-days" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Opinion: 'Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two decades ago,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/russia" target="_blank">Russian</a>&nbsp;American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.&nbsp;</p> <p>In that era, both citizens and officials knew the Soviet system was dysfunctional and no longer reflected reality - yet everyone continued as if nothing was wrong.&nbsp;</p> <p>Few could have imagined that the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50013048" target="_blank">Berlin Wall</a>&nbsp;would collapse, or that the mighty Soviet Union would disintegrate into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/the-collapse-of-the-Soviet-Union" target="_blank">15 independent states</a>, with Russia relying on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a>&nbsp;wheat imports in the 1990s.</p> <p>Looking back, it’s easy to identify the broken parts of that system and understand just how surreal and unsustainable - what Yurchak framed as hypernormalised - it truly was.&nbsp;</p> <p>Now, consider this:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-medic-killings-how-voice-beyond-grave-destroyed-israels-lie" target="_blank">15 medics and rescue workers</a>&nbsp;were recently executed by the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;army in Gaza, and after one captured the moment on video - refuting the Israeli army’s official narrative - the world is asking questions.&nbsp;</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-has-become-soviet-union-its-dying-days">Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days</a></h3> </div> </div> </article>

Street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest