GAZA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER

August 31, 2022:

The Higher Crime Committee in the Gaza Strip on 25 August 2022 issued a death sentence against (‘A. Sh.), from Gaza City, after he was convicted of premeditated murder of (‘A. ‘A) in a family dispute that took place on 3 March 2021.
Accordingly, the death sentences issued in 2022 in Gaza rise to 17, including 3 issued by military courts and 5 sentences issued in affirmation of former death sentences by Appeal Court.
The total number of death sentences issued in the Palestinian territory since 1994 reached 270; 30 in the West Bank and 240 in the Gaza Strip. Among those issued in the Gaza Strip, 181 sentences were issued after the 2007 Palestinian political division.
Since the establishment of the PA in 1994, 41 death sentences were executed: 39 in the Gaza Strip, and two in the West Bank. Of those executed in the Gaza Strip, 28 were conducted without the ratification of the Palestinian President in violation of Palestinian law.