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JERUSALEM<\/strong> | Israeli lawmakers approved a bill on Monday setting up a special tribunal that would try and have the authority to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of taking part in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The measure passed 93-0 in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament, reflecting widespread support for punishing those found responsible for what was the deadliest attack in Israel\u2019s history. The remaining 27 lawmakers were absent or abstained from voting.<\/p>\n

Rights groups have criticized the measure, saying it makes the death penalty too easy to impose while also doing away with procedures safeguarding the right to a fair trial. Defendants can appeal their sentences but the appeals have to be heard by a separate, special appeals court rather than regular appeals courts.<\/p>\n

Because the bill empowers a panel of judges to hand down the death penalty by a majority vote \u2014 and requires the trials to be conducted in a livestreamed Jerusalem courtroom \u2014 it has drawn comparisons to the 1962 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, which was broadcast live on television.<\/p>\n

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Eichmann was executed by hanging, the last time the death penalty was carried out in Israel, though technically capital punishment remains on the books for acts of genocide, espionage during wartime and certain terror offenses.<\/p>\n

Opponents of the bill also say that livestreaming the proceedings before guilt is established risks turning the trials into a spectacle. They have raised questions about the reliability of the evidence that may be presented, saying it could have been extracted by harsh interrogation methods.<\/p>\n

The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 as hostages. Israel\u2019s ensuing blistering offensive on Gaza has killed over 72,628 Palestinians, including at least 846 killed since a ceasefire took hold last October.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which doesn\u2019t differentiate between civilians and combatants but says around half the deaths were women and children. The figures by the ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts.<\/p>\n

Israeli forces also killed hundreds of militants in battles in the coastal enclave, and took an unknown number of suspects into Israeli custody where they now await trial.<\/p>\n

Simcha Rothman, one of the bill\u2019s sponsors who is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u2018s ruling coalition, said the overwhelming consensus for the bill in the Knesset shows Israeli lawmakers can come together \u201caround a common mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several Israeli rights groups \u2014 including Hamoked, Adalah and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel \u2014 said on Monday that while \u201cjustice for the victims of October 7 is a legitimate and urgent imperative,\u201d any accountability for the crimes \u201cmust be pursued through a process which includes rather than abandons the principles of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill is separate from a law passed in March that approved the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, a measure harshly condemned by the international community and rights groups as discriminatory and inhumane.<\/p>\n

That law applies to future cases and is not retroactive so it could not apply to the October 2023 suspects.<\/p>\n

According to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, the country still holds about 1,300 Palestinians from Gaza without charge in its detention facilities. At least 7,000 Palestinians from Gaza had been held in Israeli custody since October 2023, and 5,000 of them were later released.<\/p>\n

The 1,300 number does not include those held on suspicion of attacking Israel on Oct. 7 or involvement in holding the hostages.<\/p>\n

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