Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network condemns in the strongest possible terms the newest genocidal execution law adopted by the Zionist Knesset on 12 May 2026, targeting the imprisoned fighters of Al-Aqsa Flood. Passed by a margin of 93 votes — an even larger majority than the so-called “Prisoners’ Execution Law” adopted on 30 March 2026 — this latest racist and colonial law is yet another escalation in the Zionist regime’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, including the genocide being carried out behind bars against Palestinian prisoners.
The law specifically targets approximately 250 imprisoned Palestinian alleged resistance fighters from Gaza, labeled by the occupation as the “Nukhba” prisoners, many of whom are held in the notorious Rakevet section of Ramle prison under conditions of systematic torture, starvation, isolation and abuse. At the same time, this legislation is part of a broader campaign targeting over 1,400 Palestinians from Gaza abducted and imprisoned since October 2023, many of whom have disappeared into torture camps such as Sde Teiman and secret detention facilities where the occupation has attempted to conceal its crimes from the world.
The families of the fighters of 7 October 2023 do not know if their sons are prisoners or martyrs; their fate has been hidden from the world. It also must be noted that it is likely that among those imprisoned as resistance fighters are Palestinian civilians from Gaza who entered occupied Palestine ’48 when the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, carried out by the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades and fellow Palestinian resistance organizations, breached the colonially imposed borders and opened the fences and gates to occupied Palestine.
This law establishes public Zionist military courts in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem), designed not to pursue justice, but to stage colonial show trials intended to criminalize the Palestinian resistance before international public opinion. It discards basic rules of procedure and evidence, legitimizes testimony and “confessions” extracted under torture, and openly enshrines torture as a legal foundation of conviction and execution. These courts are not courts of law; they are instruments of colonial terror and genocide, created to manufacture death sentences against Palestinian freedom fighters. Of course, this is nothing new. Imprisoned Palestinians daily face Zionist military tribunals — including at least 700 Palestinian children each year — which routinely rely on torture and act openly as a weapon in the hands of the genocidal occupation forces. However, now the military tribunals are being taken from the darkness of colonial prisons to market a fictitious narrative before the international and Zionist public.
The Zionist regime seeks to invert reality and distort the image of the resistance. In one of the most outrageous colonial inversions, the genocidal Zionist entity plans to charge the Palestinian resistance fighters with “genocide,” among other crimes, when they are instead the victims of genocide, moved to resist by over 78 years of occupation and colonization. The imprisoned fighters of Al-Aqsa Flood are resistance fighters engaged in the legitimate struggle of an occupied people confronting settler-colonialism, apartheid, occupation and genocide. Under international law, occupied peoples have the right to resist colonial domination and foreign occupation by all available means — and the International Criminal Court and all other international bodies and courts have the responsibility to hold the occupation’s political leaders and officials accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity — first and foremost, genocide.
No racist colonial court, no genocidal law, and no imperialist power can erase this fundamental reality: the fighters who took up the great crossing on 7 October 2023 are heroes to the Palestinian people and to all people of the world who stand for justice and human dignity against Zionism and imperialism. With their deep faith, their love for their people and Palestine, they undertook their mission, prepared for martyrdom in order to open a new stage of struggle.
The breathtaking tactical offensive of Al-Aqsa Flood stunned the Zionist military and exhibited before the world that its vaunted intelligence network could indeed be defeated by the resistance; it responded with confusion and incompetence, then carried out the “Hannibal directive,” bombing resistance fighters and groups of “Israelis” alike in order to prevent prisoners from being captured by the resistance for exchange. The Zionist military fired tank shells and missiles from Apache helicopters at the kibbutzes and music festival attendees. It exhibited its failure from beginning to end, while the Palestinian resistance carried out a planned military operation targeting key military bases, destroying intelligence resources and capturing soldiers and settlers for prisoner exchanges. 7 October, Al-Aqsa Flood, showed the world that it was indeed possible for Palestine to be liberated from Zionism and for the entire region to be liberated from imperialism, led by the United States along with its partners in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, and other EU countries.
The Zionist entity and the imperialist powers not only unleashed an openly genocidal assault on the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, avowing their commitment to erase Palestinian existence, but also launched an extensive, expensive propaganda campaign that has included Hollywood films, museum exhibitions, backed up by their bombs and weaponry, to distort the image of the resistance and cover up the crimes and failure of the entity. This has included the repeated, baseless and debunked accusations of mass rape and sexual assault against the Palestinian resistance, while in reality, imprisoned Palestinians are subjected to systematic, state-sponsored sexual violence and rape, including with implements and animals. Any attempt to hold occupation soldiers accountable for this sexual violence has been met with both the infamous “right-to-rape riots” as well as the open welcoming back to the military of the accused by Zionist war minister Israel Katz. The show trials created by this law are an attempt to once again market before the world this failed smear campaign against the Palestinian resistance, while evading the Zionist public’s own questions about the failure of the military and intelligence agencies to detect or stop Al-Aqsa Flood.
In reality, this legislation is part and parcel of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine. As the occupation massacres tens of thousands, destroys hospitals, schools and refugee camps, imposes starvation and siege, and assassinates Palestinian leaders, journalists, doctors and children, it now seeks to formalize judicial executions against imprisoned resistance fighters. The occupation has long pursued the assassination and martyrdom of prisoners through torture, medical neglect, starvation and abuse. This law aims to normalize and institutionalize those crimes under the cover of colonial legality.
The conditions faced by Palestinian prisoners from Gaza in Rakevet, Sde Teiman and other torture facilities expose the reality of the Zionist prison regime. Survivors and released detainees have testified to horrific torture, beatings, sexual violence, electrocution, starvation, denial of medical care, shackling for prolonged periods, humiliation and psychological abuse. Numerous Palestinian prisoners abducted from Gaza have already been martyred in occupation prisons and camps since October 2023, while the occupation continues to conceal the names and conditions of many detainees from their families and the broader Palestinian people. There are approximately 1,400 Palestinians from Gaza amid 9,600 Palestinian prisoners held in horrific conditions inside Zionist jails.
These crimes are not carried out by the Zionist entity alone. The United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France and other colonial powers arm, finance, defend and politically shield the occupation regime, and these imperialist powers bear direct responsibility for its crimes. Imperialist powers not only sanction and criminalize resistance organizations, but also imprison, arrest and pursue their own citizens and residents for expressing support for the Palestinian resistance, seeking to undermine the resistance by criminalizing any expression of solidarity — part of the same material and narrative war..
This law, like the parallel Prisoners’ Execution Law, also reflects the occupation’s deep fear of prisoner exchange agreements and the central role of Palestinian prisoners in the liberation struggle. Once again, it seeks to declare that these “Nukhba prisoners” will never be released by a prisoner exchange conducted by the Palestinian resistance. However, prisoner exchanges have never been a matter of law, but instead exist outside the la as urgent questions of security. Palestinian prisoners have always stood at the forefront of resistance, and prisoner exchanges imposed through resistance have repeatedly broken the occupation’s attempts to bury Palestinian fighters alive in its prisons — and this law will not undermine the commitment of the resistance to the imprisoned strugglers.
The heroic Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian and Arab prisoners, women and men, in the prisons of the Zionist enemy will remain a symbol of dignity, honor and pride for the Palestinian people and all the free people of the world. They remain the spearhead of the resistance and of Palestine in every confrontation. The enemy, its sadistic leaders and its illegitimate colonial courts will never strip them of their status as freedom fighters and leaders of the Palestinian liberation struggle.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network emphasizes that this law is an illegitimate declaration by an illegitimate entity. We call upon all people of conscience, movements, organizations and forces struggling for liberation worldwide to escalate action — to globalize the intifada — in defense of Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people.
We call for:
* The complete international isolation of the Zionist entity and all of its institutions, including the “Knesset” and the courts and legal system, mechanisms of colonial occupation;
* Escalated direct action, mass mobilization and popular confrontation with Zionism and imperialism worldwide;
* The prosecution and trial of Zionist occupation leaders and soldiers, and all complicit imperialist officials for genocide, torture, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the escalation of all official and popular legal efforts to impose that accountability in national and international courts;
* The defense of the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation and colonialism;
* The immediate closure of torture camps and prisons including Sde Teiman and Rakevet;
* The liberation of all Palestinian prisoners from Zionist, imperialist and reactionary prisons.
The struggle for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners is inseparable from the struggle to liberate Palestine itself, from the river to the sea. No execution law, no prison, no torture camp and no colonial court will defeat the resistance or extinguish the Palestinian people’s struggle for return and liberation.
Freedom for all Palestinian prisoners.
Glory to the martyrs.
Victory to the resistance.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
source: Samidoun