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NOVEMBER 4, 2021
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The Week In News
Hamas Sentences Six Gazans to Death The Hamas terror group, which governs Gaza, announced last week that it had sentenced six Arabs to death as “informants” who were “spying for Israel.”
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According to Hamas’ military
court, sentences were issued “against a number of informants, including six death sentences [and] other sentences varying between life terms and temporary hard labor, and one acquittal.” Hamas also promised more lenient terms to those “collaborators” who turn themselves in, adding that “judgments issued have fulfilled all legal procedures. All those convicted were given every legal protection.” Hamas’ use of the death penalty has come under criticism from the international community. From a legal standpoint, Hamas is required to request approval from the Palestinian Authority prior to issuing the death penalty. However, in the past, Hamas has carried out executions without receiving permission from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Since 2007, Hamas has sentenced over 130 people to death and has executed just 25 of them, the B’Tselem organization said. This year, around 13 death sentences have been issued; at least one of those defendants was tried in absentia.
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UN Conference Not Wheelchair Accessible for MK
On Monday, Energy Minister Karine Elharrar, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair, was not able to access the United Nations COP26 climate conference and was forced to remain outdoors during proceedings because it was not wheelchair accessible. On Tuesday morning, when Prime Minister Naftali Bennett got to the conference, he made sure that Elharrar would be granted access. At the start of his three-way meeting with Bennett and Elharrar Tuesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologized to the energy minister for the incident. For two hours on Monday, organizers refused to let Elharrar enter the large compound in the vehicle in which she arrived, Elharrar’s office said. They eventually offered a shuttle transport to the summit area, but the shuttle was not wheelchair accessible. The energy minister was forced to return to her hotel in Edinburgh after organizers refused to accommodate her.
“The only way they said I could come in was to walk on foot for almost a kilometer, or to board a shuttle that was not wheelchair accessible,” she told Channel 12 news. “This is scandalous conduct, and it shouldn’t have happened,” Elharrar told the Ynet news site. “I came with certain goals, and I couldn’t achieve them today.” She noted, “The UN calls on everyone to adhere to the international treaty,” presumably referring to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. “So it is appropriate for there to be accessibility at its events.” Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who heads Elharrar’s Yesh Atid party, also weighed in. “It is impossible to take care of the future, the climate, and sustainability if we don’t first take care of people, accessibility, and people with disabilities,” he said in a statement. UK Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan tweeted that he was “disturbed” by Elharrar’s exclusion. “I apologize deeply and sincerely to the minister. We want a COP Summit that is welcoming and inclusive to everyone,” said Wigan, whose country is hosting the climate conference.
Explosives Mine Uncovered from 1967 Israel’s national mine-clearing outfit on Tuesday uncovered a Syrian military bunker full of explosives on the Golan Heights that had been abandoned following the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel captured the plateau
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