On March 30, Israel passed a death penalty law intended solely for Palestinians, expanding the use of capital punishment in both military and civilian courts. But the death penalty law was only the beginning. Since then, an avalanche of legislation has been pushed through the Israeli legal and political system that significantly expands the state’s sanctioning of death for Palestinians.

This new law, considered a twin to the first, is arguably more radical: it applies retroactively, and permits convictions on an extremely lenient evidentiary basis. This includes “evidence” gathered under conditions of torture, which, according to numerous reports, is a systemic feature of Israeli prisons, described by B’Tselem as “a network of torture camps.”

The law was approved with a consensus of 93 to 0, encompassing virtually the entire Zionist political spectrum.

The new law doesn’t need to follow any of these evidentiary rules, “including instructions concerning the study of investigation materials, chain of capture and passing of evidence,” and the acceptance of written claims compared against witness confessions when the prosecution is convinced that it “will not substantially harm the fairness of the process.”