Emma Graham-Harrison

You have sort of signals intelligent that people were in the area at the time.

But the question of tying individuals to specific crimes, you know, that's something that potentially is going to be harder to prove.

And, you know, if you have defendants not in court, it's also unclear how they're going to be represented because the government said they won't be able to access the public defender system.

So you're going to have people facing the death penalty without defence lawyers.

You know, that's another big question sort of

hanging over the prospect of this.

The law for these tribunals was passed unanimously in the Knesset, 93 votes in favor, none against.

One of the people I spoke to, who's the head of a leading Israeli human rights organisation called the Public Committee Against Torture, Sari Bashu, who's a lawyer herself, she described these tribunals as basically a new mechanism that will fast track show trials leading to mass executions and based on confessions extracted under torture.

And that's a pretty devastating prospect.

Yeah, so, I mean, I should say, first of all, this isn't just my reporting.

These horrific conditions have been documented by a broad range of journalists, human rights groups, investigators.

The Israeli-Palestinian human rights group, B'Tselem, says that Israel's prisons should be called torture camps, where torture has become systemic, and that includes sexualized violence.

I myself have interviewed a man who said he had survived rape.

He gave a very detailed and credible account of what had happened to him.

The Israeli prison service denied that.

But that is not an isolated account, which is why, you know, Bet Selem and other organisations say that they are credible.

We hear these repeated patterns of behaviour.

And, you know,

Torture produces false confessions.

That's something that's universally known.