Far from representing a mere tightening of punitive measures, the amendment extends a broader official posture that devalues Palestinian lives, institutionalises racial discrimination, and advances the annexation of Palestinian territory, while simultaneously denying the reality of an overtly unlawful occupation.
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In practice, this dual legal regime has already taken shape: Israeli civil law is applied to Jewish settlers residing in settlements built on occupied Palestinian land, while Palestinians living on that same land remain subject to military rule.
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Taken together, these laws, despite their differing contexts, operate within a single legal order that explicitly privileges Jewish citizens, many of whom arrived as settlers, over Palestinians, the indigenous population of the land. Against this backdrop, the death penalty law emerges not as an aberration, but as a logical extension of an entrenched system.
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More fundamentally, it appears aimed at entrenching a new political and legal reality, one that seeks to eclipse the very framework of occupation, while denying Palestinians their basic rights to dignity, to remain on their land, and to pursue freedom and self-determination.

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https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260402-notes-on-the-knessets-approval-of-the-death-penalty-for-palestinians/