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Israel passes death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of terrorism · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: A way of breaking news. The IDF is issuing an
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  Speaker 1: evacuation warning to residence in Beirut. It's giving residents one
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  Speaker 1: hour to leave before they start striking, saying it's targeting
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  Speaker 1: Hesbela sites. Meanwhile, Israel says it'll establish a security zone
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  Speaker 1: inside southern Lebanon and keep more than six hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: people from returning to their homes. The Israeli Defence Minister
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  Speaker 1: announced this morning the IDF will control the entire area
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  Speaker 1: up to the Lattani River. He says all the homes
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  Speaker 1: there will be demolished and that the IDF's aiming for
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  Speaker 1: the complete destruction of Rafa and Bethanoon in Gaza. Let's
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  Speaker 1: bring in Chief Foreign correspondent Ian Pannell from more on
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  Speaker 1: all this. Ian. How significant is this announcement?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very significant. I mean what it shows
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  Speaker 2: is that this isn't just a short term limited ground
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  Speaker 2: operation by the Israeli defense forces. This is far larger
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  Speaker 2: in its scale, and it seems to be mirroring as
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  Speaker 2: a defense minister Cat said there some of the operations
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  Speaker 2: that took place in Gaza. They will be demolishing homes,
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  Speaker 2: they'll be leveling the ground near the border, as you said,
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  Speaker 2: six and people have been driven out of their homes
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  Speaker 2: and they're not going to be allowed to return back
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  Speaker 2: until the Israeli Defense forces, until the Israeli government is
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  Speaker 2: confident that Hezbullah has been newted. Of course, this is
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  Speaker 2: something that they've tried before unsuccessfully. So although they've managed
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  Speaker 2: to diminish their offensive capabilities, they've taken out leadership. Sounds familiar, right,
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  Speaker 2: Hesballa was certainly able to regroup and launch attacks again,
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  Speaker 2: which we're seeing daily attacks from Lebanon into Israel by
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  Speaker 2: the Iranian proxy group. So what this actually looks like
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  Speaker 2: when they talk about having this security area is it's
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  Speaker 2: an invasion and its occupation of the land. Now it
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  Speaker 2: may not be a never ending occupation, but for now
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  Speaker 2: at least, that's certainly what it is.
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  Speaker 1: The UN Refugee Agency says more than a million people
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  Speaker 1: have been displaced in Lebanon. What happens to them now a.
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  Speaker 2: Very good question. I mean, it's a huge crisis inside
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  Speaker 2: the country at a very difficult time economically anyway for Lebanon.
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  Speaker 2: And remember this is not the first war conducted by
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  Speaker 2: Israel against Hesbalah. Again we saw large scale destruction, massive
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  Speaker 2: displacement have been to some of those IDP camps, internally
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  Speaker 2: displaced people camps. They're miserable places. The living conditions are tough,
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  Speaker 2: people rely on handouts, children aren't going to school. It's
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  Speaker 2: no kind of either sanitary living conditions or ones that
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  Speaker 2: offer any kind of privacy or human decency. So, of course,
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  Speaker 2: refugee agencies, local agencies, the local population relatives are all
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  Speaker 2: kind of chipping in to try and help, but the
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  Speaker 2: numbers are simply overwhelming. And all the while you've got
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  Speaker 2: this ongoing bombing campaign by the Israelis. As you say,
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  Speaker 2: this has been the second warning to residents in certain
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  Speaker 2: parts of Beirut to leave their homes, given just one
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  Speaker 2: hour to get out before the bombing starts.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in Israel will now mandate the hanging of Palestinians
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  Speaker 1: convicted of killing Israelis and terror attacks. Israel's Deputy Speaker
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  Speaker 1: calls this a change in the direction, in the right
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  Speaker 1: direction in the fight against terrorism. But human rights groups
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  Speaker 1: are calling this discriminatory, applies differently to Jewish people. They're
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  Speaker 1: asking Israel Supreme Court to strike it down. What does
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  Speaker 1: this new law mean for Palestinians and Israelis.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's not specifically designed differently for Jewish people. Necessarily
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  Speaker 2: is designed differently for Palestinians and Israelis, but it won't
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  Speaker 2: automatically apply to Israeli extremists who, for example, say they
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  Speaker 2: kill Palestinians in similar circumstances, and we've seen examples of
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  Speaker 2: that among some extremists in the West Bank. Instead, Israeli
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  Speaker 2: citizens will be given the option of life imprisonment, and
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  Speaker 2: we've seen this long standing campaign by Israel's far right
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  Speaker 2: parties to try and increase punishment for Palestinians convicted of
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  Speaker 2: killing Israeli premise to Netanyahu was one of those who
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  Speaker 2: was in Parliament voting for this legislation. The Association for
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  Speaker 2: Civil Rights in Israel saying it's unconstitutional and discriminatory, and
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  Speaker 2: it's also drawn strong criticism from Arab and Palestinian groups
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  Speaker 2: basically saying this is a racist legislation that furthers this
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  Speaker 2: legal apartheid against Palestinians. Now, it's not necessarily the end
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  Speaker 2: of the process. There will be appeals in Israeli Supreme
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  Speaker 2: courts and we have to wait and see whether it's
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  Speaker 2: held up or not.
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  Speaker 1: What's the likelihood the Supreme Court strike system.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's going to be under a lot
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  Speaker 2: pressure from a lot of different groups. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: Arab groups, civil rights groups, others you know who were opposed.
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  Speaker 2: This will also be pushing cases inside Israel's Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's worth just reflecting back that Israel has
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  Speaker 2: only used this kind of punishment, or the last time
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  Speaker 2: it used it was in nineteen sixty two against Adolph Eichmann,
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  Speaker 2: who was the architect of the Holocaust. Although it's technically
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  Speaker 2: had the ability on it legislation to carry out death
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  Speaker 2: by hanging, it's not something that it has done. So
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  Speaker 2: I think this is seen as a great victory for
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  Speaker 2: the far right and another blow to liberalism in the country.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Ian Panel, thank you.