April 1 (UPI) -- The United Nations human rights chief is urging Israel to repeal its new "deeply discriminatory" death penalty law, warning that using it to execute Palestinian residents of the illegally occupied West Bank would amount to a war crime. The appeal from U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Tuesday comes amid mounting international opposition to Israel's newly passed bill to make execution by hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of terrorism in military courts in the widely regarded illegally occupied West Bank. "It is deeply disappointing that this bill has been approved by...
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