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
- 298
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 298 news items on Palestinian Territories, from 1999 to today.
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- JUNE 13, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. PACE PRESIDENT CONDEMNS EXECUTIONS BY THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), René van der Linden, strongly condemned the June 12 execution of four convicted murderers by the Palestinian Authority.
- JUNE 12, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. FOUR MEN CONVICTED OF MURDER EXECUTED
the Palestinian Authority executed four convicted murderers, officials said, defying international calls to halt capital punishment as part of reforms considered key to securing future Palestinian statehood.
- MAY 4, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
EU. THE COMISSION ASKS THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TO PUT AN END TO EXECUTIONS
“The Commission, in conjunction with the Presidency of the European Union, has raised this matter [of the death penalty] with the Palestinian Authority, and has transmitted a message of serious concern at the prospect of a resumption of executions. It has
- MARCH 31, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- MARCH 3, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. TOP CLERIC APPROVES PALESTINIAN EXECUTIONS
the Palestinian Authority is set to resume the execution of prisoners on death row, with at least five sentences due to be carried out in March.
- FEBRUARY 18, 2005Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. ABU MAZEN PLANNING TO EXECUTE DOZENS OF PALESTINIANS ON DEATH ROW
according to news in the Jerusalem Post the President of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen has authorized the execution of three Palestinians sentenced to death for having collaborated with Israel.
- NOVEMBER 29, 2004Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
two Palestinians, Mohammed Abu Ganas, 53, and Rami, 22, father and son, were convicted
two Palestinians, Mohammed Abu Ganas, 53, and Rami, 22, father and son, were convicted
- OCTOBER 20, 2004Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The Gaza court of first instance sentenced Yousef Hasan...
The Gaza court of first instance sentenced Yousef Hasan Abdullah Al-Sinwar, from Khan Younis district, to death, after finding him guilty of collaborating with a Zionist security apparatus in liquidating three Palestinian resistance fighters and wounding
- JULY 5, 2004Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
The parliamentary wing of the Organisation for Security...
The parliamentary wing of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a pan-European security body, urged Libya not to execute six foreign medical workers convicted of infecting children with AIDS
- MAY 6, 2004Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
A Libyan court sentenced 5 Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian...
A Libyan court sentenced 5 Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad for deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the deadly HIV virus, court officials said
- APRIL 13, 2004Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
Three young Palestinian men found guilty of the gang...
Three young Palestinian men found guilty of the gang rape and murder of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the Gaza Strip were sentenced to death
- 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
- JANUARY 1, 2003Palestinian TerritoriesDEATH PENALTY
In Palestine three types of legislation are applied
In Palestine three types of legislation are applied
- 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 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 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