Stand against injustice: The Death Penalty Campaign

 According to UN experts , the new law institutionalises arbitrary and discriminatory deprivation of life and preserves and intensifies a dual legal system under which Palestinians are subjected to military law, military courts, and diminished due process guarantees, while Israelis are not. This manifestly violates Israel’s obligations under international human rights law.

A discriminatory regime of capital punishment

The law, which was passed on April 30th 2026, only applies to Palestinians and comes less than a month after Israel dropped all charges against its soldiers accused of mass raping Palestinian detainees at the notorious detention camp of Sde Teiman. In the last two and a half years, at least 87 Palestinian detainees have been killed in what human rights organisations describe as a “network of torture camps” – the highest recorded number since 1967.

Military courts: A system of injustice

The Israeli Military Court system of the Occupied Palestinian Territory applies exclusively to Palestinians.  Israeli human rights group B'Tselem reports that military trials of Palestinians have an approximately 96% conviction rate, largely based on 'confessions' extracted under duress and torture. 

There are more than 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails, detained either indefinitely without charge or following an unfair trial by a military court. 

The death penalty law applies to Minors - some 350 are currently held in detention and military law is applied to any Palestinian aged 12 and over.

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This law is intended to eliminate Palestinians and Palestine.

Take action

The FCO issued a statement on 29th March, 2026, stating

The death penalty is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment without any deterring effect. This is why we oppose the death penalty, whatever the circumstances around the world. 

We urge the Israeli decision makers in Knesset and Government to abandon these plans.

Why has no action been taken? Your voice is crucial in fighting this discriminatory law. We urge you to take immediate action:

“Israeli offi­cials argue that impos­ing the death penal­ty is about secu­ri­ty, but in real­i­ty, it entrench­es dis­crim­i­na­tion and a two-tiered sys­tem of jus­tice, both hall­marks of apartheid. The death penal­ty is irre­versible and cru­el. Combined with its severe restric­tions on appeals and its 90-day exe­cu­tion time­line, this bill aims to kill Palestinian detainees faster and with less scrutiny.”

ADAM COOGLE, DEPUTY MIDDLE EAST DIREC­TOR AT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, ON ISRAEL’S NEW LEG­IS­LA­TION MAN­DAT­ING THE DEATH PENALTY.