Translating Falasteen (Palestine)@translatingpal
"More than 10,800 Palestinian hostages are already inside Israeli occupation prisons, and now a law is being pushed that could turn their sentences into death."
Palestinian institutions warn that the proposed execution law now advancing through the Knesset would directly endanger figures like Marwan al-Barghouti, one of the most prominent Palestinian leaders abducted since 2002, who has spent over two decades in prison and more than two years in solitary confinement. Since October 2023, he has been assaulted multiple times by Israeli occupation prison forces, suffering broken ribs and repeated injuries, while his family has faced intimidation and psychological pressure, all within what global institutions describe as a system of “slow execution” already in place.
The urgency lies in what this law represents: not a new policy, but a formal shift toward open execution, expanding practices that have already led to the deaths of more than 100 Palestinian hostages in custody since 2023. Today, around 10,800 Palestinians are held across 23 prisons, including women, children, the sick, and thousands detained without charge, with growing concern that the law would place them at immediate risk of legalised killing.
Palestinian voices say this moment is critical because once passed, it would give full legal cover to escalate what is already happening behind prison walls, turning long-term detention into a direct threat to life for hostages like Barghouti and thousands of others.
