Priority question for written answer P-000517/2026
to the Commission
Rule 144
Lynn Boylan (The Left), Catarina Vieira (Verts/ALE), Kathleen Funchion (The Left), Damien Carême (The Left), Per Clausen (The Left), Rudi Kennes (The Left), Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Renew), Catarina Martins (The Left), Hanna Gedin (The Left), Barry Andrews (Renew), Michael McNamara (Renew), Rima Hassan (The Left), Manon Aubry (The Left)

The Israeli Knesset is currently debating a series of bills which would in effect legalise the use of the death penalty exclusively on Palestinian defendants. In some cases, the death penalty would be mandatory or imposed without the right to appeal.

The proposed bills introduce special procedures that strip away key fair-trial and human rights safeguards under international human rights law. These include restricting access to information about executions and authorising ad hoc military courts ruling on offences related to the 7 October attacks to deviate from standard procedures and evidentiary rules.

The proposed changes would amend the military law applicable to the occupied West Bank and require military courts to impose mandatory death penalties for all convictions for intentional killing in the occupied West Bank.

Will the Commission:

• 1.Denounce the proposed bills and use all diplomatic and economic leverage available to force the Israeli Government to scrap these proposals?
• 2.Propose sanctions against the Israeli Government and members of the Knesset who are putting forward these bills, given that they are essentially introducing racialised capital punishment?
• 3.Propose a suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of this flagrant breach of Article 2 of that agreement?

Submitted: 9.2.2026