Hostages should be given « the honor of pressing the button » to carry out death penalties for Hamas terrorists, former Gaza hostage Eliya Cohen said in an Instagram post, in response to a Hamas statement criticizing Otzma Yehudit’s death penalty bill. « Raping, murdering, smashing heads, desecrating bodies, burning babies, kidnapping civilians, and torturing them 24/7, is that not a violation of the international convention? » Cohen wrote. The former hostage’s reaction came after Hamas published a statement claiming that Israel had violated the International Convention on Human Rights by deciding to advance with the proposal of a death penalty law for terrorists. The terror group has called on the UN and judicial institutions to intervene.