Published Mar 31, 2026, 8:24 AM ET · Updated 7 months ago · 2 sources

Horror and fear in West Bank as Israel approves hanging Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of protesters took to the streets across the embattled Palestinian territories Tuesday in outrage after Israel’s parliament passed a measure establishing the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. Palestinians young and old held sit-ins and marches in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the territory where the new law is most sweeping. It orders West Bank military courts — which try only Palestinians — to make the death penalty the defaul