Israel Faces Internal Pushback as Supreme Court Petitions Challenge Death Penalty Law for Palestinian Prisoners

Israeli opposition lawmaker Gilad Kariv filed a petition to the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the death penalty law for Palestinian prisoners.

“Israeli Knesset member Gilad Kariv, from the opposition Democrats Party, submitted a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court to overturn the law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, which the Knesset approved last week”

Al-Jazeera Net

He described it as a racist and extremist measure from a populist and nationalist election campaign.

Al-Jazeera Net

At least three petitions have been filed, ensuring the law cannot be applied while the court considers them.

The petition highlights deep fractures within Israel's governing coalition.

Kariv criticized Jewish Power, Likud, and Shas in one scathing statement.

Anadolu Ajansı

The death penalty legislation has exacerbated tensions among right-wing partners.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned the law.

“Hussein Ibrahim Taha, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, sent identical messages to a number of parties and international institutions, expressing the organization's rejection and condemnation of the Israeli Knesset's approval of a law to execute Palestinian prisoners in the prisons of the Israeli occupation”

OSBU

A general strike was observed across the occupied West Bank.

The law poses a grave threat to more than 9,500 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons.

The law may affect about 117 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences.

Only two judicial executions have been carried out since Israel's founding in 1948.

Ash-Sharq

The new law would widen the death penalty's use in unprecedented ways.