<article data-history-node-id="429344" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-knesset-panel-advances-bill-execute-palestinian-prisoners" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-knesset-panel-advances-bill-execute-palestinian-prisoners" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel Knesset panel advances bill to execute Palestinian prisoners</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;parliamentary committee has advanced a bill to allow the execution of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;prisoners.</p> <p>Under the bill, judges would be able to impose the death penalty on Palestinians who kill Israelis based on so-called “nationalistic” motives.</p> <p>The law would not apply to Israelis who kill Palestinians under similar circumstances.</p> <p>The bill - introduced by Limor Son Har-Melech, a lawmaker from Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party - was approved on Sunday by the Knesset’s National Security Committee, with four lawmakers voting in favour and one against.</p> <p>The vote paves the way for the bill to be brought to the first of three votes in the parliament, or Knesset, before it can become law.</p> <p>Palestinian prisoners' rights groups - the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club - described the bill as an “unprecedented act of savagery”.</p> <h3>Read more:<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/act-savagery-israel-knesset-panel-advances-bill-execute-palestinian-prisoners"> Israel Knesset panel advances bill to execute Palestinian prisoners</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Israeli soldiers detain Palestinians during a raid following the reported explosion of an Israeli military vehicle near a checkpoint west of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank on 11 September 2025 (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="858d1085-1e37-4d18-b351-2f5e3e2fa5ed" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/000_747V4Z6%20%281%29.jpg" width="2000" height="1125" alt="Israeli soldiers detain Palestinians during a raid following the reported explosion of an Israeli military vehicle near a checkpoint west of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank on 11 September 2025 (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Israeli soldiers detain Palestinians during a raid following the reported explosion of an Israeli military vehicle near a checkpoint west of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank on 11 September 2025 (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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