GAZA: MILITARY HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE

In the Gaza Srip, Military High Court upheld a death sentence by firing squad issued on 06 December 2010 by the Permanent Military Court against J.Z.J., 38, a former member of Palestinian Force 17, from Gaza City. 
The man was convicted together with two fugitives of abduction and murder in accordance with the Palestinian Revolutionary Penal Code of 1979.
According to PCHR’s documentation, this is the second death sentence to be upheld by the Military High Court in its appellate capacity in 2012. 
The total number of death sentences issued by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has risen to 124 sentences since 1994, of which 25 have been issued in the West Bank and 99 in the Gaza Strip.  Of those issued in the Gaza Strip, 38 sentences have been issued since 2007.