PA Death Sentences

Since 1995 the Palestinian Authority has sentenced over 75 people to death, many of them for the crime of collaborating with Israel in terror operations, a crime which the Palestinian Authority is itself required to do by its own agreements with the Israeli government and international law. The United States which provides the Palestinian Authority with hundreds of millions of dolalrs, must demand that the Palestinian Authority reverse the convictions and its policy.
Legal Forum Documents
•	Daniel Tauber, PA Death Sentences Symbolize Return to Arafat (The American Thinker, February 6, 2009).
•	Letter from Nachi Eyal, Director of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel to Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak on PA Death Sentence in Hebron (Jan. 26, 2009).
Information & Documents from Human Rights Groups
•	Statistics on the Death Penalty in the Palestinian Authority (B’tselem, Nov. 30, 2008) Providing a timeline of the PA’s use of the death penalty from 1995 through Nov. 30, 2008.
•	Death Penalty under the Palestinian National Authority (Position Paper, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Sept. 14, 2006).
•	Death Penalty in the Palestinian Authority (Background information from B’tselem)
•	Military Court in Hebron Sentences a Palestinian to Death; PCHR Calls upon Palestinian President Not to Ratify the Sentence and Demands the Abolishment of Death Penalty from Palestinian Law (Palestinian Center for Human Rights Press Release, Jan. 26, 2009).
•	Palestinian Authority: Death Sentences Surge in West Bank, Gaza, 11 Sentenced to Death in December 2008 (Human Rights Watch Press Release, Dec. 15, 2008) (also available at UN Council on Human Rights).
•	Document - Palestinian Authority: Death penalty / Fear of imminent execution: Tha’er Mahmoud Husni Rmailat (m) (Press Release, Amnesty International, April 16, 2008).
•	Palestinian Authority: Amnesty International calls for halt to death penalty as four executed in Gaza (Amnesty International Australia, Aug. 26, 2005).
News Stories
•	Hamas executes suspected Fatah traitors in Gaza (San Fransico Chronicle, Jan. 22, 2009).
•	Hamas asserts control in Gaza, seeks "collaborators" (Reuters, Jan. 21, 2009.
•	PA court sentences two to death for 'collaboration' (Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2008).
•	Hamas condemns collaborator to death (Jerusalem Post, July 20, 2008)