Israel never stopped extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, Prisoners' Club says

Palestinian Prisoners' Club on Monday said that Israel has never stopped carrying out extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, while criticising the draft law to execute Palestinian prisoners.

"The occupation's efforts to pass a law to execute prisoners are a further step to entrench a crime that has existed and been practised for decades. The brutality of the occupation is unprecedented, and today it seeks to entrench the crime of execution through the enactment of a special law," it said. 

Knesset's National Security Committee approved a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, local media reported.

The committee referred the bill to the Knesset General Assembly for discussion and voting in the upcoming legislative session, reports said. 

Times of Israel reported that the legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have "committed a nationalistically motivated murder" of a citizen of Israel. It would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian.