There is no peace for the Israeli families of Hamas hostages . Today - during a debate on the death penalty , held in the parliamentary committee for national security on the initiative of the far-right "Jewish Power" party -, in the throes of pain and desperation, they asked the deputies to postpone the session so as not to compromise negotiations with the kidnappers . The representatives, in a loud voice, said that by discussing certain issues and raising the option of capital punishment " you are putting the lives of our relatives at risk ."
The hearing was called to prepare for first reading a draft law presented in March . Commission chairman Zvi Vogel (Jewish Power) ordered the debate to continue. «In Israel - said Vogel, quoted by public radio Kan - the death penalty was carried out only once, against the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann . Each of the Hamas terrorists is another Eichmann. Each of them must climb the gallows."
For Vogel «there is no difference between Hamas and the Nazis. The terrorists who came here had the intent to humiliate Israel, in the context of a vision that would see the establishment of an Islamic state here. If it's up to me, I won't leave any of them alive to tell what they did on October 7th. Not even in prison." Following the protest, the words of Ofir Katz, spokesperson for the governing majority coalition and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud, arrived, according to which «the death penalty for terrorists will not be put to the vote before it is endorsed by the cabinet of government".
(Unioneonline/vf)