Energy Minister Israel Katz is seeking the creation of a drumhead court that will operate according to Israel’s law for prosecuting Nazis and collaborators in order to seek justice for terrorists captured alive during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught on southern Israel.
Such a law would allow Israel to execute those it is holding. Israeli law only allows capital punishment under the Nazi law and in a court martial for treason.
In a letter to Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Katz says that extending a law intended for Nazis to terrorists responsible for the massacres is not an overreach.
“The acts of these vile Hamas wretches, who cut off heads and limbs, tortured, burned, raped are no less severe than those of the Nazis,” Katz writes, asking Levin to act quickly to set up a court to deal with them as swiftly as possible.
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