Israel Moves To Toughen Sentences For Stone-Throwers

[Purveyor]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli cabinet ministers approved on Sunday legislation aimed at imposing tougher penalties on stone-throwers, a measure that stemmed from a wave of Palestinian protests last year in occupied East Jerusalem.

A draft law that won preliminary parliamentary approval late last year allowed for sentences of up to 20 years in jail for throwing a rock with the intent of causing bodily harm.

But far-right politician Ayelet Shaked, Israel's new justice minister, complained that far lighter punishment would probably be handed down because of the difficulty of proving such intent, especially in cases of stone-throwing in mass street protests.

On Twitter, she announced that a ministerial committee approved her proposed amendments, which included an additional tier of 10 years' imprisonment without the need to prove an accused rock-thrower intended to harm anyone.

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[Scootaloo]

1. Well, of course there will be special exceptions to the law...

[Little Tich]

2. Yet another apartheid law in the Apartheid City to oppress further.

I have no doubt that this law only applies to people of a certain ethnicity, and that people of another ethnicity will continue to be immune to prosecution for stone throwing.

Perhaps the underlying reasons for the protests in EJ should be addressed rather than only clamping down on the protests...

[NaturalHigh]

3. "with the intent of causing bodily harm"...

Somehow I doubt that it's a friendly game of catch.

[azurnoir]

4. will this apply to Palestinian minors too?