Ramallah: The endorsement of the law of the death penalty for detainees by the Israeli Knesset National Security Committee, in a prelude to its approval in the first reading, represents an additional step toward consolidating the Israeli occupation’s crime against prisoners, said the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA) and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) in a joint statement on Sunday.

According to Qatar News Agency, the statement highlighted that the Israeli occupation system practiced decades-long slow execution policies against hundreds of prisoners languishing in dungeons of Israeli custodies through methodical techniques that resulted in the death of dozens of them.

These policies have unprecedentedly escalated since the breakout of the war of extermination, turning the current period into the bloodiest situation in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, the statement continued.

The statement further added that despite the crystal-clear provisions of international law that criminalize capital punishment, the Israeli occupation’s determination to legalize this crime underscores once again that it acts as if unbound by the law and out of accountability’s reach.

The Israeli occupation’s brutality has reached an unprecedented level that can hardly be described, as it didn’t stop at killing dozens of prisoners and detainees since the start of the war of extermination, but today seeks to consolidate the execution crime through enacting a special law, the statement pointed out.

Noteworthy, this Israeli law is not new, it has been laid out time and again throughout the past years. The last one was in 2022, when the extreme minister in the Israeli occupation’s government, Itamar Ben-Gvir, laid it out again with a combination of amendments.

It was ultimately approved by the Israeli Knesset in the preliminary reading in 2023, culminating in its official approval today by this committee in a prelude to be endorsed in the first reading.