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Rachel Hagan

Send terrorists to the electric chair, says Israel's new extreme right minister

Terrorists should be sent to an electric chair, Israel's hardline right-wing national security minister has said following a string of attacks.

Itamar Ben-Gvir said at a meeting of his Otzma Yehudit party: "Anyone who murders, harms and slaughters civilians should be sent to the electric chair."

On Thursday, Israeli forces carried out one of its deadliest raids in decades on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, killing 10 residents and pushing the death toll of Palestinians in January to 35.

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