The Israeli Knesset has approved a law establishing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic violence.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir supported the measure which mandates death by hanging.This marks the first expansion of capital punishment in the region since the execution of Adolf Eichmann in 1962.While the
EU condemned the legislation as discriminatory, the Association of Civil Rights in
Israel filed a challenge in the
Supreme Court.