Channel 13 reports prison service building 'Green Mile' facility where executions set to take place
Palestinian youth from Gaza released from Israeli detention under the ceasefire deal on 2 December 2025 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)
Published date: 9 February 2026 13:31 GMT | Last update: 1 week 3 days ago
The Israeli Prison Service has begun preparations to introduce the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, Israeli media reported on Sunday.
According to Israel's Channel 13, preparations include the creation of a facility dubbed "Israel's Green Mile", where executions will take place.
Training and procedural preparations have also started, while a delegation from the prison service is expected to visit an East Asian country to study the legal and regulatory framework for implementing capital punishment, the report added.
The move follows the Knesset’s approval of the death penalty bill in its first reading last year, with 39 MPs in favour and 16 against.
The bill must pass two further readings before becoming law.
The report added that executions will be carried out by hanging, with three guards pressing the trigger simultaneously.
Specialist teams, composed entirely of volunteers, will be assigned to the task.
An Israeli source told the channel that death sentences will be carried out within 90 days of the final verdict.
The law will initially target Palestinians accused of being members of Hamas’ Nukhba - its elite unit - who took part in the October 2023 attacks.
Those accused of serious attacks in the West Bank would follow.
The legislation would not apply to Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances.
'Unprecedented act of savagery'
Israeli law currently allows the death penalty in certain cases, but it has not been carried out since Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann was executed in 1962 for his role in the Holocaust.
Rights groups have strongly opposed the controversial bill, citing Israel’s widespread arrests of Palestinians on vague terrorism charges and a surge in reports of torture and deaths since the start of the genocide in Gaza.
A “record high” of 110 Palestinians have died under prison policies introduced by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir since he took office at the start of 2023, though Palestinian groups say the actual number is likely higher.
Last week, a dozen UN experts urged Israel to withdraw the legislation, warning that “mandatory death sentences are contrary to the right to life”.
“By removing judicial and prosecutorial discretion, they prevent a court from considering the individual circumstances, including mitigating factors, and from imposing a proportionate sentence that fits the crime,” the experts said.
Palestinian prisoners’ rights groups, including the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, described the bill as an “unprecedented act of savagery”.
They accused Israel of seeking to legalise the ongoing killing of prisoners, saying its approval “is no longer surprising given the unprecedented level of brutality practised by the occupation system”.
Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-begins-preparations-execution-palestinian-prisoners-report
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