<article data-history-node-id="431006" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-calls-un-stop-draft-israeli-law-execute-palestinian-prisoners" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-calls-un-stop-draft-israeli-law-execute-palestinian-prisoners" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas calls on UN to stop draft Israeli law to execute Palestinian prisoners</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Monday called on the United Nations and human rights organisations to take urgent action to stop the draft law to execute Palestinian prisoners.</p> <p>"We demand the formation of international committees to enter the detention centres, examine the conditions of Palestinian prisoners, and expose the atrocities committed there," the organisation said.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Israeli military is set to appoint a new advocate general after a scandal forced the resignation of its top lawyer, who admitted to leaking footage apparently showing soldiers raping a Palestinian detainee.</p> <p>Knesset's National Security Committee approved a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, local media reported.</p> <p>The committee referred the bill to the Knesset General Assembly for discussion and voting in the upcoming legislative session, reports said.&nbsp;</p> <p>Times of Israel reported that the legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have "committed a nationalistically motivated murder" of a citizen of Israel. It would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431007" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-never-stopped-extrajudicial-killings-palestinians-prisoners-club" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-never-stopped-extrajudicial-killings-palestinians-prisoners-club" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title"> Israel&nbsp;never stopped extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, Prisoners' Club says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Palestinian Prisoners' Club on Monday said that Israel&nbsp;has never stopped carrying out extrajudicial killings of Palestinians, while criticising the draft law to execute Palestinian prisoners.</p> <p>"The occupation's efforts to pass a law to execute prisoners are a further step to entrench a crime that has existed and been practised for decades. The brutality of the occupation is unprecedented, and today it seeks to entrench the crime of execution through the enactment of a special law," it said.&nbsp;</p> <p>Knesset's National Security Committee approved a bill that would allow the execution of Palestinian prisoners, local media reported.</p> <p>The committee referred the bill to the Knesset General Assembly for discussion and voting in the upcoming legislative session, reports said.&nbsp;</p> <p>Times of Israel reported that the legislation stipulates that courts will be able to impose the death penalty on those who have "committed a nationalistically motivated murder" of a citizen of Israel. It would not apply to an Israeli who killed a Palestinian.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431008" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/erdogan-israel-massacred-over-200-palestinians-ceasefire-agreement" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/erdogan-israel-massacred-over-200-palestinians-ceasefire-agreement" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Erdogan: Israel massacred over 200 Palestinians since ceasefire agreement</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said Israel has "massacred over 200 innocent people" since the agreement and "continues its occupation and attacks on the West Bank", Anadolu news agency reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>“We all see that Israel’s record on this matter is very poor,” Erdogan said, adding that "Hamas appears more determined to comply with the ceasefire".&nbsp;</p> <p>“We are facing an administration that has massacred over 200 innocent people since the ceasefire agreement and continues its occupation and attacks on the West Bank,” he said.</p> <p>“We cannot allow the annexation of the West Bank, the changing of Jerusalem’s status or attempts to damage the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” he said.&nbsp;</p> <p>Foreign ministers from eight nations are meeting in Istanbul on Monday to discuss the implementation of the Gaza "peace plan". The meeting brings together top diplomats from Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan and Indonesia.</p> <p>Talks are expected to centre on the October 10 ceasefire and the second phase of Trump’s proposed 20-point peace plan.</p> <p>Israel committed 194 violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on 10 October, the director of the government media office in Gaza said.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="430974" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-detainee-dies-israeli-prison-after-being-denied-care" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-detainee-dies-israeli-prison-after-being-denied-care" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli prison after being denied care</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="88" data-start="0">The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has confirmed the death of 63-year-old Mohammed Hussein Ghawadra from Burqin, near Jenin, who died today while being held by Israeli authorities.</p> <p data-end="572" data-start="274">Ghawadra, detained since August 2024, was denied essential medical treatment despite suffering from chronic illnesses, the group said. His death, it added, exposes Israel’s “systematic crimes” against Palestinian detainees, including routine medical neglect and physical and psychological abuse.</p> <p data-end="808" data-start="574">According to the organisation, Ghawadra’s death raises the number of Palestinian prisoners killed in Israeli custody since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza to 81. Since 1967, at least 318 Palestinians have died behind Israeli bars.</p> <p data-end="1046" data-start="810">Ghawadra was the father of administrative detainee Sami Ghawadra, who remains imprisoned without charge or trial, and of Shadi Ghawadra, who was released and exiled to Egypt earlier this year as part of a prisoner exchange with Hamas.</p> <p data-end="1250" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1048">Rights groups have repeatedly accused Israel of turning its prisons into “slow-death chambers,” where Palestinian detainees are subjected to brutal interrogation, starvation, and denial of medical care.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430975" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/south-lebanon-mourns-victims-new-israeli-airstrikes" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/south-lebanon-mourns-victims-new-israeli-airstrikes" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">South Lebanon mourns victims of new Israeli airstrikes</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-116" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-6901b48e-cf20-832a-9f2e-41bb2cc7fcbc-41" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="74" data-start="0">Hundreds gathered in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh to mourn five people killed in recent Israeli air raids, as Tel Aviv vows to escalate its attacks.</p> <p data-end="505" data-start="238">According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, four people were killed in an Israeli strike on Kafr Rumman, in the Nabatieh district, on Thursday.</p> <p data-end="704" data-start="507">A day earlier, Israel said it had assassinated “a Hezbollah maintenance officer” in another strike in the same district, alleging he was rebuilding the group’s infrastructure in southern Lebanon.</p> <p data-end="911" data-start="706">Funeral processions filled the streets as the victims’ coffins, wrapped in Hezbollah flags, were carried through the crowd. Many mourners clutched photos of relatives killed in past Israeli bombardments.</p> <p data-end="1021" data-start="913">“This is a price the south is paying on a daily basis,” said Rana Hamed, whose son was among those killed.</p> <p data-end="1232" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1023">Despite a nearly yearlong truce with Hezbollah, Israel has continued to launch attacks across southern Lebanon, a campaign critics say aims to provoke a wider war and keep the region in perpetual instability.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>

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