The United Nations has harshly criticised the Israeli parliament's approval of a "cruel and discriminatory" new death penalty bill, warning that applying it in occupied Palestinian territory "would constitute a war crime". Under the new law, passed in parliament late on Monday, local time, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank convicted by military courts of deadly attacks classified as "terrorism" will face the death penalty as a default sentence. Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN chief António Guterres, said the world body stood "against the death penalty in all its aspects, wherever". "The discriminatory nature of this particular law makes...
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