12/05/2026
The legislation, titled the "Prosecution of Participants in the October 7 Massacre Events Bill", is set for its second and third readings in Israel's Knesset on Monday and is widely expected to pass, according to Israeli media.
Adalah, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, has formally objected to the bill. Adalah's attorney, Muna Haddad, submitted a formal objection. She told The New Arab that the proposal represented "a total collapse of the rule of law."
"It is engineered to replace a genuine judicial inquiry with a retributive framework of state-sanctioned 'show trials' that explicitly strip Palestinians of the most fundamental fair trial guarantees," she said.
