00:00Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets across the West Bank a day after Israel's parliament passed a law
00:07imposing the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of carrying out deadly attacks.
00:14The controversial law allows for executions without proper appeals, pardons or meaningful judicial discretion, a move the United Nations has
00:23criticised as cruel and potentially a war crime.
00:28Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voiced fears that their jailed relatives could be hanged without due process after Israel
00:35adopted the new law.
00:37Under the law, military courts in the West Bank must impose death by hanging for deadly terrorist acts.
00:44While judges can opt for life imprisonment under vaguely defined special circumstances, the death penalty would otherwise be mandatory and
00:53be carried out within 90 days of sentencing.
00:55By contrast, those tried in civilian courts, including Israeli citizens and residents of East Jerusalem, are subject to a different
01:04system with greater judicial discretion.
01:07UN experts and Amnesty International warned the law targets Palestinians almost exclusively.
01:13It would, they argue, deepen discrimination against Palestinians, which the International Court of Justice has already described as apartheid.
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