Israel approves death penalty for October 7 attackers
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Parliament in Israel passes a law to set up special military trials for Palestinians accused of taking part in the deadly Hamas-led attack in October 2023. The tribunal will be able to sentence those convicted to death. Also in this podcast: the European Union approves new sanctions against Israeli settlers accused of “supporting the extremist and violent colonisation of the West Bank". Ministers start to resign from Keir Starmer's government, as the embattled British prime minister fights to stay in office. The UN says more than 400 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan since a cross-border conflict with Pakistan broke out in October last year. A senator in the Philippines takes refuge inside parliament to avoid arrest over his alleged role in former President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. President Emmanuel Macron co-hosts the "Africa Forward Summit" in Kenya, to try to reset France's relationship with the continent. And new research suggests participating in the arts slows the ageing process.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at 15 hours GMT on Tuesday the 12th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.5 | Israel's Parliament passes a new law that permits the death |
| 0:22.8 | penalty for those found guilty of taking part in the October the 7th attacks. The EU approves |
| 0:29.2 | fresh sanctions against Israeli settlers accused of supporting the extremist and violent |
| 0:34.0 | colonisation of the West Bank. Britain's embattled Prime Minister tells his cabinet |
| 0:39.0 | he's going nowhere as he faces growing calls to resign. |
| 0:44.6 | Also in this podcast, we speak to our reporter in the Afghan capital Kabul |
| 0:49.9 | who tells us about the deadliest single attack on the country in decades. |
| 0:55.0 | And... |
| 0:56.0 | So we can look at these patterns to see if someone is older or younger than the number of birthdays they've had. |
| 1:01.5 | And we found that people who engage more in the arts have got this younger epigenetic age. |
| 1:06.0 | New research suggests participating in artistic endeavours could slow the ageing process. |
| 1:15.4 | On the 7th of October 2023, Hamas-led fighters killed more than 1,200 people in southern Israel. |
| 1:23.1 | Another 251 were kidnapped. |
| 1:25.5 | Now, Israel's parliament has passed a new law to impose the death penalty |
| 1:29.6 | and conduct public trials for those involved in the attacks and kidnappings. Human rights groups |
| 1:35.5 | have criticised the legislation saying the trials will not be fair and some confessions have been |
| 1:40.9 | extracted through torture, which Israel denies. I heard more from Yoland Nell |
| 1:45.8 | in Jerusalem. This law passed with 93 votes to zero, an unusual level of cross-party support |
| 1:52.6 | in the 120-seat Israeli parliament, the Knesset. And what it basically does is it's empowering |
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