PA holds general strike against law imposing death penalty on Palestinians convicted of lethal terrorism

Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Palestinians demonstrate against a new Knesset law imposing the death penalty on West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorist acts, in Nablus, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Palestinians demonstrate against a new Knesset law imposing the death penalty on West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorist acts, in Nablus, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

A general strike is taking place in parts of the West Bank today to protest a law passed by the Knesset on Monday that makes death by hanging the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorist acts.

The strike was announced yesterday by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement and is being observed in parts of the West Bank that are governed by the PA.

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