00:02Israel's parliament has passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted
00:07on terror charges for deadly attacks, a measure that has been harshly condemned by the international
00:12community and rights groups as discriminatory and inhumane.
00:18The law, championed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Givir, makes the
00:23death penalty by hanging the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted for
00:28nationalistic killings.
00:31Legal experts say this language effectively confines those who can be sentenced to death
00:36to Palestinian citizens of Israel and excludes Jewish citizens.
01:06Minutes after the bill passed, the Association of Civil Rights in Israel said it had already
01:11petitioned Israel's highest court to challenge the law, calling it discriminatory by design.
01:18The foreign ministers of Australia, Britain, France, Germany and Italy released a statement
01:23on Sunday urging Israel to abandon plans to pass the law, calling it de facto discriminatory,
01:30and saying the death penalty was unethical and had no deterring effect.
01:36The Council of Europe said the adoption of the law represents a serious regression.
01:43The Council of Europe said it had no deterring effect.
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