Israel passes new death penalty law for Palestinians

The United Nations has urged Israel to repeal a law making ​death ‌by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military ‌courts of deadly ⁠attacks.

U.N. Human rights chief - Volker Turk - says the legislation violates international humanitarian law and is deeply discriminatory.

Israel has rarely used the death penalty - the last person to be executed in the country was the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1962.

• Guest: Aviv Tatarsky, Fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking
• Producers: Pip Cook, Grace Stranger