In a joint statement published on Thursday 2 April, a group of 31 NGOs led by Amnesty International called on the European Union to suspend the trade part of its association agreement with Israel, following the Knesset’s adoption of a law introducing the death penalty for “terrorists” (see EUROPE B13840A16).
The new legislation allows the death penalty for “whoever intentionally or out of indifference causes the death of an Israeli citizen [...] with the aim of harming the State of...