Via Brett Wilkins the bill had drawn widespread condemnation “for provisions including mandatory death sentences without judicial discretion or possibility of pardons, to be carried out within 90 days.”

The bill also retains what critics say is a discriminatory two-track legal regime; one for military courts which have jurisdiction over Palestinians—but not Israeli settlers—in the illegally occupied West Bank, and another for civilian courts inside Israel and East Jerusalem, which, like wider West Bank, has been unlawfully occupied by Israel for nearly 59 years.