Outrage as Israel approves death penalty for convicted Palestinians

JERUSALEM, Israel — Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories on Tuesday, a day after Israel’s parliament passed a measure establishing the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. Palestinians young and old held sit-ins and marches in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the territory where the new law is most sweeping. The Fatah political party has called a general strike in the northern part of the West Bank for Wednesday. The legislation orders West Bank military courts — which try only Palestinians — to make the death penalty the default sentence for […]... Keep on reading: Outrage as Israel approves death penalty for convicted Palestinians

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