Knesset committee advances death penalty for terrorists

The Knesset National Security Committee cleared a bill mandating either the death penalty or life imprisonment for convicted terrorists.

The bill reads:

“Whoever intentionally causes the death of a person with the intention of harming a citizen or resident of Israel, with the aim of denying the existence of the State of Israel, shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment, and one of these punishments only.”

If a death sentence is passed, it is to be carried out within 90 days by hanging. A prison guard will carry out the execution.

Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stated following the committee vote:

“With God’s help, we will pass this law in full and kill our enemies.”

The bill has strong support within the governing coalition and from right-wing parties in the opposition.

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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it forced three commercial ships to turn back as they attempted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz today.

Central Israel now.

Missile intercepted.

Defense Minister Israel Katz:

"The Prime Minister and I have warned the Iranian terrorist regime to stop firing missiles at the civilian population in Israel.

“Despite the warnings, the missile fire continues - and therefore IDF strikes on Iran will escalate and expand to additional targets and areas that assist the regime in building and operating weapons against Israeli citizens."

Sirens in the Dead Sea area, around Dimona.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps released a clip of an oil tanker it attacked as it attempted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Sirens again in southern Israel.

The missile to southern Israel was successfully intercepted. The missile to the center, or debris from it, is believed to have fallen in an open area.

The IDF this afternoon issued an evacuation alert for the Iranian industrial city of Arak.

The IDF confirms that it attacked the heavy water reactor at Arak, Iran, a key component of the regime's efforts to restart its nuclear weapons program.

The IDF also struck a uranium extraction plant located in Yazd, central Iran.

This plant is the only one of its kind in Iran, where raw materials mined from the earth undergo mechanical and chemical processing so that they can later be used as raw materials for uranium enrichment.

This is a highly significant process for the nuclear weapons program advanced by the regime and constitutes the beginning of the value chain required for producing nuclear weapons.

1 dead, 2 wounded after an Iranian cluster warhead hit Tel Aviv.

After the deadly Iranian strike on Tel Aviv around midnight…

🔹️ Iran launched two more missiles, at central and southern Israel, both of which were intercepted

🔹️ The Houthis in Yemen launched a missile at southern Israel this morning. It was intercepted

🔹️ Haifa and the Upper Galilee have been under rocket and drone attack much of the morning

🔹️ Israeli forces carried out waves of airstrikes across Iran overnight and this morning. Details to follow