Israel’s Far-Right Security Minister Gave Out Desserts To Celebrate A Bill To Execute Palestinian Detainees
"This is how we fight terror; this is how we create deterrence," Itamar Ben-Gvir said.
Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was filmed celebrating the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, passing the first reading on a bill that calls for Palestinian detainees to be executed.
The proposed bill has already been discussed and approved in preliminary readings but is awaiting a full Knesset vote to be enacted into law.
Late on Monday, Nov. 10, lawmakers, in the first vote of four, passed the bill with 39 in favor and 16 against, out of 120 lawmakers.
Ben-Gvir was then seen handing out desserts to celebrate the first vote passing.
Ben-Gvir had called on all political factions to back the bill, which he said was aimed at creating deterrence against "Arab terrorism," according to Reuters.
"This is how we fight terror; this is how we create deterrence," he said in a statement after the initial vote, adding, "once the law is finally passed, terrorists will be released only to hell."
Ben-Gvir has repeatedly bragged about the harsh conditions Palestinians face in Israeli prisons and was filmed recently taunting Palestinian prisoners and calling for them to be executed.
Rights groups called the bill a legislative entrenchment of systematic repression and a violation of international law, which generally prohibits the death penalty.
Reports from various human rights organizations and Palestinian sources have confirmed that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody are subjected to widespread and systematic torture, physical and sexual violence, including electric shocks, waterboarding, suspension, severe beatings, starvation, medical neglect, gang-rape and other brutal treatments.
The UN has documented at least 75 Palestinian detainees dying in Israeli prisons since Oct. 7, 2023, with many deaths attributed to torture, starvation, or lack of medical care and the International Committee of the Red Cross remains banned from visiting Palestinian prisoners.
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