Israeli Occupation Approves Law To Execute Palestinian Political Prisoners
Palestinian Prisoner Organizations: Israeli Knesset A Terrorist Institution; its Membership in International Parliaments and Unions Must be Terminated Immediately
Palestinian Prisoners' Institutions
March 30, 2026
Ramallah, occupied Palestine — After years of relentless efforts by the Israeli settler-colonial regime to legalize the execution of Palestinian political prisoners—and amid a global order defined by paralysis and complicity, laid bare by the atrocities in occupied Gaza—the Israeli occupation has passed a law that will allow for the execution of Palestinian political prisoners.
While the Israeli occupation has for decades extrajudicially executed Palestinians, this moment marks a dangerous escalation. As ethnic cleansing intensifies, forced displacement expands, and apartheid policies deepens, Palestinian existence itself is under sustained threat, from the streets to the prisons and military camps.
The law constitutes a profound violation of fundamental human rights and exposes decades of international complicity, lack of will, failure, and refusal to hold the settler-colony of “Israel” accountable.
While global attention remains fixed on the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Israeli occupation is ushering in a new phase of openly sanctioned, politically motivated executions of Palestinian prisoners. It codifies state-sanctioned political murder and turns prisons into legalized killing grounds and central arenas of torture. Make no mistake: this law is an extension of a multi-pronged system of genocide that has targeted Palestinian existence for decades—rendering the occupation’s prisons and detention camps a direct extension of genocidal policies and a central theater for their execution.
At this critical and dangerous stage, in which our people face severe and systematic persecution, we, as Palestinian human rights groups, affirm that the occupation system has reached a level of brutality that exceeds the descriptive capacity of international human rights frameworks—frameworks that have proven entirely incapable of exerting meaningful pressure to halt the ongoing destruction and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians everywhere.
In light of this dangerous development, we, as Palestinian human rights institutions, affirm that despite the repeated appeals we have made over the past period, and the messages sent to various relevant bodies, the law has passed. Nevertheless, we will continue to call on free countries to take a clear stance toward the so-called “Knesset,” and to work immediately to terminate its membership in international parliaments and unions, and to boycott it as an institution that codifies systematic genocide and destruction of the Palestinian people, especially since the documented crime of genocide in Gaza.
We will continue to address the free people of the world with all our strength, based on the inalienable Palestinian right to self-determination, freedom, and the liberation of all political prisoners. We warn that these crimes and ongoing destruction will not be limited to the Palestinian people alone, but will extend to peoples worldwide, as long as the international community persists in complicity and in treating “Israel” as a colonial system exempt from accountability and punishment, and as an exception to the laws and humanitarian norms that peoples have long struggled to establish.

We therefore renew our demands:
* Activation of the principle of universal jurisdiction to prosecute those involved in torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed against prisoners.
* Suspension of all forms of diplomatic, military, and economic cooperation with the occupation until it fully complies with international law.
* Treating the Knesset and Israeli occupation courts as racist and terrorist institutions and working to isolate them internationally, including rejecting their membership in international parliamentary bodies and unions.
* Ensuring the immediate and unconditional release of all Palestinian political prisoners, including: Ending the policy of administrative detention, dismantling the military court system and opening independent and transparent investigations into all cases of torture and deaths in custody.
* Full cooperation with the International Criminal Court, supporting its investigations, and implementation of arrest warrants against those responsible for international crimes.
* Enabling the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit prisoners and monitor their detention conditions without restriction.
🔴Attached is a paper in English with key facts about the execution law published by Palestinian prisoner institutions one day before its passing.
https://www.ppsmo.ps/home/studies/18165?culture=ar-SA