Emma Graham-Harrison

Even that can be waived.

So essentially, they're bringing in the death penalty while relaxing the heightened due process that was in place in existing Israeli legislation

for any potential case that could end with a death sentence, although the people may well have been involved in atrocities.

That is correct, yeah.

Yeah.

And I mean, the argument for that was that it would be more efficient.

And I think, you know, people I've spoken to have said that in itself is worrying because, again, there's huge need and demand for justice, for accountability.

People who lost their loved ones, who were injured, who were taken captive nearly three years ago now want to know what happened, want the people who committed these atrocities to be held accountable.

But the worry is that if you do it in a context where the judicial process isn't the priority, you actually won't end up with real justice, with real accountability.

So there's three to four hundred Palestinians from Gaza who are currently being held on suspicion of some involvement in the atrocities on October 7th.

The law setting up these tribunals specifically allows for

mass trials, you know, adding to concerns about the nature of these tribunals is the fact that they're going to be, all these parts of the proceedings are going to be live streamed.

And so there's real concern that that is going to be taken by government to create a national narrative.

A criminal trial is meant to provide justice, but it's also meant to clarify what happened on a particular day and who did it.

And the concern of people I've spoken to who very much back the urgent call for accountability for people to be put on trial, their concern is that these aren't going to end up with real accountability, with real justice, that, you know, you might come out of them with people found guilty and even being executed, but they might not be the people who actually committed the crimes.

And that's potentially exacerbated by the fact that there's not that much forensic evidence.

I mean, for very understandable reasons, you know,

The areas where these atrocities were committed were an active war zone.

The priority was saving lives, re-establishing control, things like that.

So you have a lot of video evidence.