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France, Germany, UN slam call to kill 30-40 Gaza enemies daily
Ben Gvir announces ground broken on gallows where ‘terrorists will be executed’
In a video published on August 18, 2026, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stands in front of a construction site where he says a gallows is being built. (X screenshot)
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Far-right minister says booths being built so families of terror victims can watch executions, days after promising ex-hostage that he'll work to let him to personally hang his captor
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 17, 2026, 12:52 am
Ben Gvir: We should kill ’30 to 40′ of Israel’s enemies in Gaza every night, ‘they’re not worthy of life’
In comments made to ex-hostage and shared widely in Arab media, minister says IDF should even kill operatives that don’t pose immediate threat: ‘They shouldn’t live, they’re not even people’
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Lebanese lawmakers attend a parliamentary session to elect a president, in Beirut, on January 9, 2025. (Anwar Amro/AFP)
August 11, 2026, 6:02 pm
Lebanon abolishes death penalty in landmark vote, becoming first Arab nation to do so
Majority of 128-member parliament votes in favor of formalizing a 2004 moratorium on executions, with the exception of the Hezbollah bloc, which opposes the motion
By AP
Then-president Bashar al-Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during presidential elections in the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
August 11, 2026, 5:19 pm
Syrian court sentences ex-president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for war crimes
Assad’s cousin Atef Najib, present in Damascus court, also given death penalty for overseeing 2011 crackdown that helped trigger uprising against regime
By GHAITH ALSAYED and SAMAR KASSABALLI
Illustrative: Members of Jordanian special forces guard at the airport upon the departure of a US delegation, in Amman, Jordan, October 13, 202. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
June 21, 2026, 7:05 pm
Jordan hangs 6 for killing security personnel after 9-year pause in death penalties
Government says men were involved in terror and drug cases between 2014 and 2022; over 100 remain on death row, Amman says executions to proceed ‘one by one’
By AFP and ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir hoists a bottle of bubbly wine in celebration after lawmakers approved legislation mandating the death penalty for West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorist acts, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 17, 2026, 11:22 pm
Death penalty law for West Bank Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorism comes into effect
‘Terrorists who murder Jews will not sit in prison in pleasant conditions… they will pay the heaviest price’ says Defense Minister Katz
By Jeremy Sharon
Abraham Bonowitz, executive director of Death Penalty Action, and other death penalty opponents hold a demonstration outside the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, September 25, 2024, asking the state to call off the scheduled execution of Alan Miller in what would be the nation's second execution using nitrogen gas. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)
April 26, 2026, 5:23 am
US to add firing squad, electrocutions, gas asphyxiation to federal execution methods
Move comes as Justice Department struggles to obtain drugs for lethal injections after Trump rescinded moratorium on federal executions last year
By Jonathan Allen
US President Donald Trump speaks during an event for NCAA national champions in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
April 22, 2026, 1:24 pm
Trump says Iran ‘collapsing’ over Hormuz blockade as IRGC attacks ships in key waterway
Iranian minister denies American blockade effective, after US president extended ceasefire indefinitely; Tehran executes man accused of working with Mossad
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Activists protest against a law passed by the Knesset imposing the death penalty outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 31, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 16, 2026, 4:58 pm
Experts say death penalty law discriminatory and drastic, but not necessarily doomed
Despite constitutional flaws, judges may opt not to strike down entire measure, especially as some surmise its extreme language aims to provoke a fight with the court for political gain
By Ariela Karmel
A demonstrator wears a sticker over her mouth with the words "no execution" next to the portraits of alleged victims of crackdowns, during a silent march denouncing the deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in the Islamic Republic, in Paris on January 31, 2026. (Sébastien DUPUY / AFP)
April 13, 2026, 9:51 am
Iran executed over 1,600 people in 2025, most since 1989, rights groups say
Tehran put 4 to 5 people to death daily throughout last year, data shows; if regime survives war, IHR says ‘serious risk that executions will be used even more extensively’
By AFP
Glenn Torshizi, whose brothers were executed by the Iranian government, joins others in a picket line at the US State Department to highlight the executions in Karaj, Iran, of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran members, March 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
April 6, 2026, 8:02 pm
Iran hangs another young man as regime steps up executions of protesters under cover of war
Ali Fahim, 23, is hanged for alleged attack on Basij base during January protests, in what is said to be the regime’s 10th execution of political prisoners in 8 days
By AFP and ToI Staff
A man identified in Arabic media as a Syrian security officer, right, hoists a Palestinian flag he removed from the United Arab Emirates embassy building in Damascus, Syria, April 3, 2026, amid a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 5, 2026, 12:15 am
UAE condemns ‘acts of vandalism’ after anti-Israel riot at its embassy in Damascus
Guard kisses and hoists Palestinian flag while detaining man who flew it on building, as protesters against Israel’s new death penalty law try to storm the UAE’s ‘Zionist embassy’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) celebrates the passing of the death penalty law for terrorists in the Knesset, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 3, 2026, 1:05 pm
The death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terror is unconstitutional
Racist and legally flawed, this legislation undermines Israel’s core values as a Jewish and democratic state. The High Court has a moral imperative to strike it down
By Yuval Yoaz
Illustrative image from an Israeli prison, January 21, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
April 2, 2026, 2:45 pm
‘Entrenches apartheid’: UAE, 7 other Muslim countries blast Israeli death penalty law
Statement by FMs, many from countries which also enforce death penalty, decries law’s discriminatory nature toward Palestinians, says it risks ‘exacerbating tensions’
By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Palestinians demonstrate against Israel's new death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terror in Nablus, West Bank, March 31, 2026. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)
April 2, 2026, 2:14 am
West Bank Palestinians protest, go on strike against new death penalty law
Strike called by PA sees shops shut, universities closed as critics decry law mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly terrorism as unjust
By Nurit Yohanan and Agencies
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a joint statement with French President Emmanuel Macron (not in picture) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, November 11, 2025. (Christophe Petit Tesson, Pool via AP)
March 31, 2026, 1:30 pm
PA, rights groups denounce death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of deadly terror
Palestinian Authority President Abbas says legislation violates international and humanitarian law; Hamas threatens attacks to retaliate for law’s passage
By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid
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