Families of detainees vow to resist, while human rights groups and multiple countries denounce the law

April 1, 2026

Palestinians across the occupied West Bank observed a general strike on Wednesday in protest against a new Israeli law allowing the execution of prisoners, as international condemnation mounted.

Fatah, the movement led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, called for the strike, describing the legislation as a “dangerous escalation” against Palestinians.

“This criminal law will not break the will of our people or the determination of our prisoners, but will instead strengthen our resolve to continue the struggle for their freedom and legitimate rights,” it said in a statement.

  • P1nkman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    3 days ago

    In the 30’s, the Nazis prosecuted all the Jews, but let (some) them live in camps.

    In the 20’s, Israel (made up predominately by Jews) is prosecuting Palestinians, and they’ll be killed just for being alive.

    I see no difference between these two. I really hope the world gives the justice Israel deserves and gives the land (all of Israel) to Palestinians, but this is not a perfect world. Nor is it a good world. Fuck, I hate it here.

    • ozymandias@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      The treatment is the same, Israel is definitely fascist.
      I think the difference would be their long history of conflict, and especially suicide bombers, which killed

      over 700 people between 1994 and 2005

      What Israel is doing is definitely evil, but if you want to know how they got here, I think it’s the people blowing up buses and cafes and such, for about 20 years…

      • darth_grunkus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        If a group of thugs walked up your street, beat up every family, and said that everything you own is theirs now while the government looks the other way, what would you do?

      • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        2 days ago

        The Palestinian authority is providing security to Israel while letting Palestinians getting brutalized by the settler terrorists

        • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          2 days ago

          Cool. Maybe we post an article about that and make that comment there, then. Kinda doesn’t make a lot of sense here, does it?

            • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              … then draw a through line to it. Blasting out a sound byte without context isn’t going to win hearts, especially if it’s under something that seems to demonstrate the opposite.

              • gtrcoi@programming.devEnglish
                1·
                22 hours ago

                Winning hearts isn’t the only goal, it’s a kind of larger movement driven by slogans that gains enough cultural momentum to subsume new members. The comments like that are just a kind of virtue signal to bolster the existing converts until new ones happen to fall into it. Like if you see enough half-truths everywhere you look without looking into the claim you’ll start to believe it to some extent.