"At a protest in the city of Nablus, demonstrators carried signs warning that time was running out. Stop the law to execute prisoners, before it's too late, one sign read, showing an animation of a prisoner wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh scarf next to a noose."
"There isn't a single person standing here who doesn't have a brother, a husband, a son, or even a neighbour in prison. There is no Palestinian family without a prisoner."
"United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has condemned the law, saying its applications to residents of the occupied Palestinian territory would constitute a war crime."
A general strike was called by Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party in response to a new Israeli law imposing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks. Palestinian shops and public institutions closed across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, with protests occurring in cities like Ramallah and Nablus. Demonstrators expressed urgency to stop the law, which has been condemned by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as a potential war crime. The protests highlighted the widespread impact of imprisonment on Palestinian families, with over 9,500 Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons.
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