Israel has passed a law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in terrorism incidents. The legislation, devised by far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, will see prisoners sentenced within 90 days of arrest and executed within a further 90 days. MPs allied to Ben-Gvir wore noose-shaped pins on their lapels as they gathered in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to vote through the legislation last night. The minister was filmed brandishing a bottle of champagne in Israeli parliament, in celebration of the bill passing. “From today, every terrorist will know, and the whole world will know, that whoever takes a life, the state of Israel will take their life,” Ben-Gvir told the Knesset. Only Palestinians are tried in military courts. Rights group B’Tselem says there is a near 100% conviction rate and confessions are sometimes extracted through torture.

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