Abu al-Hummos urges the world to halt the approval of the execution law for detainees in Israeli prisons

November 3, 2025

The Head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Raed Abu al-Hummos, called on the international community on Monday morning to take immediate action and pressure the Israeli occupation government to halt the procedures aimed at approving a law that would authorize the execution of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons and detention centers.

Abu al-Hummos stated that the so-called National Security Committee of the Israeli Knesset approved earlier today a bill permitting the execution of individuals accused by Israel of carrying out operations that resulted in the deaths of Israelis. He added that a comprehensive draft has already been prepared for a first reading vote, which is expected to take place within the coming days.
He further explained that the occupation authorities claim the law would apply to those allegedly involved in the events of October 7, 2023, noting that Israel is attempting to fabricate justifications to sway global opinion and legitimize this law as if it were a natural right of Israel.
Abu al-Hummos voiced grave concern over the lives of all Palestinian detainees, warning that the enactment of this law would threaten to end the lives of countless freedom fighters detained in Israeli facilities. He stressed that it would also create a dangerous space for Israeli extremism and racism to carry out executions driven by vengeance and political motives.
He called to the United Nations, as well as to all human rights, humanitarian, regional, and international organizations, and to every free and honorable voice around the world, to rise against this dangerous development and act to stop Israel from committing further crimes against the Palestinian people.
He confirmed that this law, if passed, would represent a blatant violation of international law and humanitarian conventions.
Abu al-Hummos underscored the urgency of rapid international intervention, warning that once the bill is submitted to the Knesset for approval through its three readings, it would come at an unbearable cost and effectively legitimize executions as state policy.
He also pointed out that such a move aligns with the extremist agendas of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich, who have all expressed their support for legalizing this measure.

He further revealed that Israel has already been practicing the execution policy, confirming that 81 detainees known to the Commission were executed over the past two years. He added that there are certainly dozens, if not hundreds, of other detainees who were killed after being detained, whose cases Israel continues to conceal. Abu al-Hummos condemned what he described as Israel’s theft of the skin and organs of martyrs, a crime verified through medical examinations of bodies recently returned in Gaza.