Legalising Murder: Israel’s Shift from Control to Elimination

Opinion By Ambassador Hanan Jarrar Israel has crossed a line it has long approached but never formally declared: legalising the killing of prisoners. By passing a law permitting the execution of Palestinian detainees, what they once carried out in the shadows with impunity now stands codified in law. In a system where Palestinian conviction rates in military courts are consistently reported by human rights organisations and legal experts to exceed 95%, often reaching as high as 99%, the death penalty…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in Advertisement ...