In a joint statement, Palestinian factions called the bill a “fascist crime” and another attempt to codify the occupation’s killing machine. The factions argued that the move would expose what Palestinians have long maintained: that the Israeli establishment relies not only on land theft and military aggression, but also on the systematic destruction of Palestinian lives through the prison system.
According to the Al-Mayadeen TV EN website, the parties stressed that the bill effectively gives the occupation a “green light” to intensify the slow killing practices already widespread throughout Israel’s prisons: torture, starvation, humiliation, and deliberate medical neglect. They warned that Israel’s military tribunals, long condemned as instruments of political control, were now openly transforming into “legalized means of killing” and that global silence was tantamount to direct complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.
Hamas says the preliminary approval is “an extension of the occupation government’s racist approach and an attempt to legitimize systematic mass killings” and insists that no legislation can divorce itself from the brutal reality faced by thousands of Palestinian prisoners of war, many of whom have been subjected to enforced disappearances, impunity and torture since October 2023.
The Islamic Jihad movement said the bill is a “dangerous escalation of criminal activity” that falls squarely into Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide and forced displacement. The movement pointed to repeated United Nations warnings confirming large-scale violations and argued that the law proves that “Israel” seeks to eliminate Palestinians not only in Gaza and the West Bank, but also in its prisons.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) denounced the bill as a “full-scale war crime” that strips away the last veneers of due process. The group said the move demonstrated the occupation’s determination to crush Palestinian resistance by subjecting detainees, many of whom are children, minors and civilians abducted from their homes, to state-sanctioned executions.
The Palestinian faction’s statement comes amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza. In Gaza, Israel continues to violate the ceasefire daily with new attacks, targeted assassinations, and a stifling blockade that prevents life-saving aid from entering the country.
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