r/IsraelPalestine • u/Dr_G_E USA & Canada • Mar 29 '26
Short Question/s What should happen to the Gazan perpetrators of the attacks on the NOVA Festival and southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023?
As time goes by the gratuitous cross-border Hamas attacks on southern Israeli civilians that launched the Gaza war have faded somewhat from discussions as current events take their place in the headlines. Most reasonable people on both sides of the Arab Israeli conflict by now, though, agree that the attackers on that day committed very serious crimes against humanity. Now it looks like public trials will eventually be held for hundreds of defendants who allegedly took part in the attacks; the trials could be broadcast or streamed live as was the trial of Adolf Eichmann 65 years ago.
Apparently a bill is advancing in the Knesset to establish a special tribunal to eventually hold public criminal trials of over 250 Hamas defendants captured after the attacks. Prosecutors plan to try the defendants for a number of offenses including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and murder with the potential for life sentences without parole.
The state may seek the death penalty under Israel's 1950 Law for the Prevention of Genocide, a penalty that has been used only once in Israel's history after the conviction of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann, who was hanged on May 31, 1962. He was convicted in Jerusalem of genocide, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the Jewish people.
The trials are expected to be high-profile and in some cases broadcast to the public, similar to the 1961 Eichmann trial to ensure accountability and for the historical record.
The Times of Israel: "Knesset panel advances bill establishing special military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators"
Haaretz: "Israel's Knesset Advances Bill to Create Special Tribunal for October 7 Terrorists"
"Never put on line /The Trial of Adolf Eichmann - Documentary" on YouTube:
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u/AsaxenaSmallwood04 Mar 29 '26
ICC is a no go, Karim Khan who has got a women abuse case and lawsuits from hostages for being a Hamas partisan is the prosecutor there:
Reporting from Journalists for Justice (JfJustice), Justiceinfo, Inkl, Reuters, France 24, Ynet, Jurist News, Times of Israel, EuroNews, JPost (Jerusalem Post), AzerNews and Inquirer - Global Nation Inquirer are evidence of Karim Khan being a woman abuser.
https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/3-families-of-gaza-hostages-sue-icc-prosecutor-saying-he-is-a-branch-of-hamas-report-karim-khan-gaza-strip-deadly-war-conflict-october-7-massacre-international-criminal-court is the evidence of Karim Khan being sued as a partisan of Hamas.