{"id":9139,"date":"2026-04-14T05:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:36:41","slug":"israels-use-of-death-penalty-law-on-palestinians-to-constitute-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/04\/14\/israels-use-of-death-penalty-law-on-palestinians-to-constitute-war-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s use of death penalty law on Palestinians to constitute \u2018war crime\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hundreds of Palestinians rallied across several cities in the occupied West Bank to protest Israel\u2019s newly approved law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, with demonstrations reported in places including Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tubas and Hebron. The UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk condemned the legislation as \u201cdeeply discriminatory,\u201d warning that applying the death penalty to residents of occupied territory could constitute a war crime. The protesters displayed images of Palestinian prisoners who have died in custody. Israel\u2019s parliament (Knesset) passed the measure by a 62\u201348 vote, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted in favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 31, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/31\/hundreds-rally-in-west-bank-against-israeli-death-penalty-for-palestinians\">aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Palestinians rallied across several cities in the occupied West Bank to protest Israel\u2019s newly approved law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, with demonstrations reported in places including Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tubas and Hebron. The UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk condemned the legislation as \u201cdeeply discriminatory,\u201d warning that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9233,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9139\/revisions\/9233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}