Netanyahu calls for the execution of Palestinian who stabbed three settlers to death

Palestine

Published: 2017-07-28 12:23

Last Updated: 2024-03-27 13:56


Netanyahu during his visit to the family of the murdered settlers yesterday.
Netanyahu during his visit to the family of the murdered settlers yesterday.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, called for the execution of the Palestinian who stabbed three Israeli settlers to death last Sunday in the settlement of Halamish in Ramallah.

The Prime Minister had paid a visit to the family of the settlers to offer his condolences yesterday, where he said, “the time has come to impose the death penalty on the terrorists.”

In a later press statement, Netanyahu said, “we must reach a consensus from the judges. They too wish to know what the government’s stance on this is. This terrorist must not smile.”

The Israeli death penalty has last been carried out in 1962 on Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.

For a death penalty to be carried out in Israel, a full judiciary must approve of it without a single objection from a judge.

19 year-old Omar Abd Al Jalil, the Palestinian who carried out the attack at Halamish, snuck into the settlement northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank armed with a knife, and stabbed three settlers before being shot by an Israeli soldier.