00:00Gazans in Khan Unis have voiced dismay at an Israeli death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks.
00:08Israel's parliament passed a law making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly
00:17attacks,
00:18fulfilling a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right allies.
00:23The law would only apply to Israelis convicted of murder, whose attacks aim at ending Israel's existence,
00:30meaning it would mete out the death penalty for Palestinians, but not for Jewish Israelis who committed similar crimes, critics
00:37say.
00:37The legislation has drawn international criticism of Israel,
00:41which is already under scrutiny for increasing violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and its
00:49war in Gaza.
00:50The measure includes provisions requiring an execution by hanging within 90 days of sentencing,
00:57with some allowance for a delay but no right to clemency.
01:01It provides the option of imposing a life imprisonment sentence instead of capital punishment,
01:07but only in unspecified special circumstances.
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