Palestinian Authority calls the bill a ‘war crime’ against Palestinians, says it breaches the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Rights group B’Tselem pointed out prior to the Knesset’s approval of the bill that the conviction rate for Palestinians tried in military courts is about 96 percent. “In many cases, these convictions are based on ‘confessions’ obtained through pressure and torture during interrogations,” it said in a post on X on Sunday.

“The law is worded in such a way that it targets only Palestinians. And it will turn the killing of Palestinians into an accepted and common tool of punishment through several mechanisms,” said the group. https://aje.news/lzu8nz

By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and The Associated Press – 3/30/2026

“After uprooting Palestinian hamlets, extremist settlers set sights on purge of entire West Bank“

Extremist settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, already at unprecedented levels over the last three years, has reached a new zenith since the outbreak of war between Israel and Iran at the end of February.

Civil rights groups and activists have reported extremely high rates of Jewish extremist attacks since war broke out, with multiple incidents of assault, vandalism, theft, and harassment occurring daily.

This has included intensified violent settler raids into Palestinian towns and villages, as well as the establishment of Jewish settlement outposts in Areas A and B, as part of the grander plan to assert Israeli control over the entire territory from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. https://www.msn.com/…/after-uprooting…/ar-AA1ZNITt… Story by Jeremy Sharon | The Times of Israel – 3/31/2026 

“The bill, which comes into effect as the occupied West Bank experiences a surge in Israeli military and settler violence, was condemned by the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom on Sunday.

Amnesty International said in February that it would make the death penalty “another discriminatory tool in Israel’s system of apartheid”. https://youtu.be/J5GFhwliNrU?si=T8zRD7A5jkuT-EjW

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who championed the death penalty bill, celebrating after the Knesset passed the controversial draft law by raising a bottle of champagne. (Photo: Reuters) https://zeenews.india.com/…/explained-what-is-israel-s…