Palestinian Territories
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · In Palestine three types of legislation are applied
- News items in the archive
- 368
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Palestinian Territories is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 368 news items on Palestinian Territories, from 1999 to today.
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- JANUARY 24, 2004Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
the Gaza City Criminal Court handed down two death sentences
the Gaza City Criminal Court handed down two death sentences
- DECEMBER 17, 2003Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Zayd Hassan Abd Al-Latif Masud Al Safarini, the leader...
Zayd Hassan Abd Al-Latif Masud Al Safarini, the leader of a group of Palestinian rebels who took over a Pan Am jet in Pakistan in 1986 and killed 22 people, avoided the death penalty under a plea bargain with the US government
- DECEMBER 17, 2003Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Zayd Hassan Abd Al-Latif Masud Al Safarini, the leader...
Zayd Hassan Abd Al-Latif Masud Al Safarini, the leader of a group of Palestinian rebels who took over a Pan Am jet in Pakistan in 1986 and killed 22 people, avoided the death penalty under a plea bargain with the US government
- APRIL 3, 2003Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that in Nablus, West...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that in Nablus, West Bank, the "Occupation forces executed Khalid Ali Rayyan, 33, after storming a residential building in Asirah street at dawn? Our correspondent said that occupation forces shot Rayyan dead after arrest
- JANUARY 1, 2003Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
In Palestine three types of legislation are applied
In Palestine three types of legislation are applied
- DECEMBER 25, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation forces executed 32-year-old Ibrahim Talib Abu-Hawwash by opening fire on him after storming a building in Nablus
- DECEMBER 23, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that special Israeli...
Radio Voice of Palestine reported that special Israeli army units executed Shaman Hasan Subuh, 28, and Mustafa Jalal Qash, 28, from Burqin village in Jenin Governorate
- OCTOBER 28, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian security court sentenced to death a Palestinian...
A Palestinian security court sentenced to death a Palestinian human rights worker in a one-day trial, finding he had supplied Israel with information that led to the killing of militants, Reuters reported
- OCTOBER 24, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian security court sentenced a 22-year-old...
A Palestinian security court sentenced a 22-year-old university student to death by firing squad for giving Israel information that led to a July air raid, which killed a top Muslim militant and 15 others
- OCTOBER 24, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian National Authority (PNA) court sentenced...
A Palestinian National Authority (PNA) court sentenced a Palestinian student to death after charging him with collaborating with Israel
- OCTOBER 19, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Amin Halef Ala, 31, a Palestinian man was sentenced...
Amin Halef Ala, 31, a Palestinian man was sentenced to death by firing squad for supplying Israel with information about top Islamic militants
- OCTOBER 17, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian security court sentenced a Hamas veteran...
A Palestinian security court sentenced a Hamas veteran to death for helping Israeli intelligence track and kill five fellow members of the Islamic militant group between 1987 and 1995
- SEPTEMBER 1, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian security sources revealed that Israeli...
Palestinian security sources revealed that Israeli occupation forces randomly opened fire at a group of residents in the occupied city of Jenin, killing 16-year old Abd-al-Karim al-Sa'di
- AUGUST 31, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a car and a house...
Israeli helicopter gunships attacked a car and a house at a village near Jenin in the West Bank, killing five Palestinians, two of them children
- AUGUST 31, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian militants shot dead a man they accused...
Palestinian militants shot dead a man they accused of "collaborating" with Israeli security
- AUGUST 30, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
18-year old Rajah Ibrahim was shot in the head in Tulkarm...
18-year old Rajah Ibrahim was shot in the head in Tulkarm after "confessing" to helping Israel to kill Raed Karmi, a leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of the Fatah faction of Yassir Arafat, the Palestinian leader
- AUGUST 25, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Officials said a Palestinian militant group executed...
Officials said a Palestinian militant group executed a Palestinian woman accused of spying for Israel, then dumped her bullet ridden corpse in a public square in the West Bank city of Tulkarm
- AUGUST 12, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The Palestinian radio Voice of Palestine said Israeli...
The Palestinian radio Voice of Palestine said Israeli occupation forces executed Ghazal Fyrayhat in Al-Yamun village, west of Jenin, this morning
- AUGUST 7, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
In Ramallah, the Palestinian city just north of Jerusalem,...
In Ramallah, the Palestinian city just north of Jerusalem, a firing squad executed a convicted killer and rapist in the courtyard of Yasser Arafat's compound
- AUGUST 5, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian TV broadcast a 37-minute film entitled...
Palestinian TV broadcast a 37-minute film entitled "Janingrad, the witness and the martyr" on the Jenin incidents in early April 2002, which the Palestinians call "a massacre" perpetrated by Israeli troops
- JULY 29, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The Israeli human rights organisation Btselem reports...
The Israeli human rights organisation Btselem reports that in the past 21 months nearly 1700 Palestinians were killed, of whom 1295 were civilians, and included 250 children, 77 civilians who were extra-judicially executed and 92 women
- JULY 15, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian human rights group condemned the killing...
A Palestinian human rights group condemned the killing of an alleged collaborator with Israel, who was shot while standing trial in the Gaza Strip on July 14
- JULY 14, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Palestinian, angered by the killing of three relatives...
A Palestinian, angered by the killing of three relatives in an Israeli air strike on Islamic militants, burst into a courtroom and shot dead a man on trial for allegedly betraying the trio, witnesses said
- JULY 11, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International condemned...
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International condemned Palestinian suicide attacks against Israeli civilians as crimes against humanity and demanded they end immediately
- JULY 10, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The Palestinian Authority urged "collaborators" suspected...
The Palestinian Authority urged "collaborators" suspected of betraying Palestinians fighting Israeli occupation to give up within a month to win better legal treatment
- JULY 9, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
In Gaza, a Palestinian sentenced to death for collaborating...
In Gaza, a Palestinian sentenced to death for collaborating with Israeli security was shot and killed by Palestinian police while trying to escape, the Palestinian prosecutor said
- JULY 3, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Palestinian security forces fired at protesters who...
Palestinian security forces fired at protesters who attacked a Gaza police station with rocks and pipe bombs, demanding the execution of a suspected collaborator with Israel being held inside, witnesses said
- JUNE 6, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The Palestinian Authority executed by firing squad...
The Palestinian Authority executed by firing squad two Palestinians convicted of raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl, Palestinian security and hospital officials said
- APRIL 23, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Hooded gunmen shot dead three fellow-Palestinians for...
Hooded gunmen shot dead three fellow-Palestinians for collaborating with Israel, taking swift vengeance on them for an Israeli missile strike that killed two Palestinian militants
- APRIL 20, 2002Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Evidence of freshly-dug graves with the bodies of up...
Evidence of freshly-dug graves with the bodies of up to 200 Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin was seen by the Sunday Express