Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Urge UN Intervention to Halt Israel’s Death Penalty Bill Targeting Palestinian Detainees by Al-Haq

In a joint urgent appeal to UN Special Procedures and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Al-Haq – Law in the Service of Man, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan), and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) warn that Israel’s draft Penal Bill (Amendment No. 159) (Death Penalty for Terrorists) 2025 would formalise the systematic, state-sanctioned killing of Palestinian detainees and further entrench Israel’s settler-colonial apartheid regime while advancing its genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.