HOW ISRAELS MILITARY COURT WORKS IN PALESTINE Israel’s military court system adjudicates cases involving those Palestinians who came under Israeli occupation after the June 1967 war. Operating under the authority of the military in the West Bank, it yields a guilty verdict in 99.74 percent of cases. Most Palestinians choose to accept a kind of plea bargain, but for those who do go to trial, the prosecution relies almost entirely on signed confessions. These confessions are secured during an interrogation process that frequently includes the kind of torture [Rasmea] Odeh endured, as has been documented over the past four decades not only by human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, but also by a commission convened by the Israeli government and Israel’s High Court of Justice.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 07:36:27 +0000
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