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Urgent: Israel moves to apply controversial death penalty law to West Bank assailants

Xinhua
| May 18, 2026
2026-05-18

JERUSALEM, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that Israel's military has signed an order allowing a newly-passed death penalty law to be applied to Palestinians convicted of killing Jews in the occupied West Bank, marking the first step toward implementing the controversial law. Enditem

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