Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office: Draft law on executing prisoners war crime of genocide inside prisons. Photo: Saba Net
Israeli media reported today that the Knesset’s National Security Committee has voted in favor of a bill authorizing the execution of Palestinian prisoners.
This decision marks a moral, legal, and political point of no return.
Israel, which for decades has invoked the rhetoric of “security” to justify its crimes, is now institutionalizing the death penalty as a tool of ethnic cleansing.
This measure did not emerge from a vacuum. It is the logical outcome of a regime that, since 1948, has thrived on the extermination and dehumanization of the Palestinian people.
From the prisons where thousands of men, women, and children endure torture, to the smoldering ruins of Gaza, the Zionist state has committed every imaginable atrocity under the cloak of international impunity.
This law seeks to give a veneer of legality to what is already a daily practice: the systematic killing of Palestinians in custody, in their homes, on the streets, and during military incursions.
With this vote, the Knesset is not legislating—it is signing its own historical condemnation, sealing the genocidal nature of modern Zionism.
Faced with this horror, the silence of the so-called “democratic West” only reinforces the global complicity in crime.
Organizations such as the United Nations—created to protect human rights—watch in silence as one of their member states legalizes political and racial executions.
From the Palestinian Union of Latin America (UPAL), we denounce this barbarity and urgently call upon the free peoples of the world to break the cycle of fear, silence, and hypocrisy.
The Palestinian people do not ask for revenge; they ask for justice.
They do not demand hatred, but freedom.
And that freedom cannot be suppressed by prisons or by laws of death.
UPAL – Palestinian Union of Latin America
For justice, dignity, and the total liberation of Palestine.
November 5, 2025
