🚨 KNESSET APPROVES LAW TO PROSECUTE OCTOBER 7 TERRORISTS AS ISRAEL REJECTS EU SANCTIONS ON JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND ELECTION DATE DEBATE CONTINUES
🚨 The law to prosecute the terrorists responsible for the October 7 Simchat Torah massacre was approved by a majority of 93 Knesset members. Judges will be able to impose the death penalty, and terrorists convicted under the law will never be released, including in future hostage-prisoner exchange deals.
The legislation was advanced through cooperation between coalition and opposition lawmakers, including Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Constitution Committee Chairman Simcha Rothman, and Yisrael Beiteinu MK Yulia Malinovsky. Supporters described the legislation as “the modern Eichmann trials,” saying the trials “will take place in Jerusalem” and calling the law “history and national heritage.”
The statement accompanying the law said Israel was taking “a historic step of justice and national remembrance,” adding that those who “massacred, murdered, raped, and kidnapped Israeli civilians will be brought to justice and will pay the heaviest possible price.”
The statement further declared: “The State of Israel will neither forget nor forgive. This is a moral obligation to the victims, the bereaved families, the hostages, and the entire people of Israel.”
❗️ A new report by the Civil Commission for Documentation and Investigation of Hamas Crimes compiled more than 10,000 findings related to sexual assaults committed during the October 7 massacre and in Hamas captivity.
According to the report, documented cases include gang rape, severe sexual abuse in Hamas captivity, and incidents in which family members were forced to perform sexual acts on one another.
Yoseph Haddad stated: “Everything is documented and proven!” He added that “the war against Hamas will not end until we eliminate the last terrorist and ensure that this terrorist organization is destroyed.”
⚠️ The Prime Minister’s Office accused the European Union of creating “false symmetry between Israeli citizens and Hamas terrorists” while Israel and the United States are “doing Europe’s dirty work” against “Jihadist lunatics in Iran and elsewhere.”
The statement rejected possible European sanctions on Israelis living in Judea and Samaria, declaring that “Judea is where Jews come from” and stating that Israel “will always protect the rights of Jews to live in the heart of our ancestral homeland.”
⚠️ Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reportedly demanded the transfer of areas in Judea and Samaria from Areas A and B to Area C in response to European Union sanctions. Associates described the move as “effectively the annulment of the Oslo Accords.”
🗳️ Coalition discussions over a possible election date are continuing. Likud reportedly prefers elections on October 20 or 27, while Shas supports September 15, shortly after Rosh Hashanah.
According to reports, Prime Minister Netanyahu is using his influence to push for elections after the holiday period rather than during it.
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