https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-732945
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed her concern over the settler vigilante attack against the Palestinian town of Huwara as well as over Israel’s judicial reform and its plan to impose a death penalty for terrorism.
“Our sympathy…goes out to the victims of the revenge actions, the retaliatory actions in the city of Huwara Houses and cars were set alight, innocent families were left in a state of shock and fear,” Baerbock said, during a joint press conference in Berlin Tuesday with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen.
She sharply condemned the two Palestinian terror attacks in the West Bank on Sunday and Monday that claimed three Israeli lives, but she also spoke out against the retaliatory attack against Huwara on Sunday night, during which a Palestinian man was killed.
“Such acts of retaliation and revenge have further aggravated the already tense situation and the responsible people have to be brought to justice. There has to be a chance an opportunity for justice to be done,” Baerbock said.
She also raised the issue of Israel’s pending judicial overhaul, a reform process that Western allies worry could weaken Israeli democracy.
“I do not want to hide the fact that we here abroad do have concerns regarding some legislative projects in Israel. Amongst the values that we shared are the principles of the rule of law, such as an independent judiciary,” she said.
Baerbock expresses opposition to terrorist death penalty bill
She added to this the pending legislation that would allow Israel a country that has used the death penalty once in its history, and that was against Adolf Eichmann, to impose capital punishment on terrorists in some cases.
“We oppose the death penalty from the depth of our beliefs and we raise that issue everywhere we go in the United States and Japan, just as much as in Saudi Arabia and Iran,” she said.
Many countries are ending that cruel practice which does not sufficiently act as a deterrent, she said.
Even school children learn that Israel does not support the death penalty even in cases of terror, she said…..
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock expressed her concern over the settler vigilante attack against the Palestinian town of Huwara as well as over Israel’s judicial reform and its plan to impose a death penalty for terrorism.
“Our sympathy…goes out to the victims of the revenge actions, the retaliatory actions in the city of Huwara Houses and cars were set alight, innocent families were left in a state of shock and fear,” Baerbock said, during a joint press conference in Berlin Tuesday with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen.
She sharply condemned the two Palestinian terror attacks in the West Bank on Sunday and Monday that claimed three Israeli lives, but she also spoke out against the retaliatory attack against Huwara on Sunday night, during which a Palestinian man was killed.
“Such acts of retaliation and revenge have further aggravated the already tense situation and the responsible people have to be brought to justice. There has to be a chance an opportunity for justice to be done,” Baerbock said.
She also raised the issue of Israel’s pending judicial overhaul, a reform process that Western allies worry could weaken Israeli democracy.
“I do not want to hide the fact that we here abroad do have concerns regarding some legislative projects in Israel. Amongst the values that we shared are the principles of the rule of law, such as an independent judiciary,” she said.
Baerbock expresses opposition to terrorist death penalty bill
She added to this the pending legislation that would allow Israel a country that has used the death penalty once in its history, and that was against Adolf Eichmann, to impose capital punishment on terrorists in some cases.
“We oppose the death penalty from the depth of our beliefs and we raise that issue everywhere we go in the United States and Japan, just as much as in Saudi Arabia and Iran,” she said.
Many countries are ending that cruel practice which does not sufficiently act as a deterrent, she said.
Even school children learn that Israel does not support the death penalty even in cases of terror, she said…..
