Almost six thousand Palestinians are currently detained in Israeli prisons - most are charged with "security-related offenses" and conviction rates hover around 95 percent. Lawyers who take on Palestinian cases go up against a system of occupation that's considered illegal by international law. In today's Inspirers report, CGTN's Stephanie Freid goes to court with an Israeli lawyer who fights some of the toughest legal battles on behalf of Palestinian clients. She says it's a moral obligation.

It was the slap and kick that went viral.

And landed Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi in Israeli military prison for eight months while some Israeli ministers were calling for a life sentence.

Tamimi's Israeli attorney Gaby Lasky secured the lesser sentence - Lasky has been representing Palestinians in Israeli courts for twenty years.

GABY LASKY HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY "Who I am cannot sit with her feet up and say: 'Okay, it'll pass.' or I can just try and make my small life better. Because it won't be. What we need actually is that both sides see the other side. And that's the only way that I believe we'll be able to end occupation, understand each other."

She's one of only a few dozen Israeli human rights attorneys who take on Palestinian cases in an effort to influence policy change.

STEPHANIE FREID WEST BANK "The argument is: Any Palestinian tried in an Israeli military court by a military judge and a military prosecutor is not going to get a fair trial."

Today's client Mohammed is also an attorney and an activist. He's up for indictment on charges of assaulting a soldier, participating in a non-approved march and obstructing justice.

In cases against Palestinians, charges tend to be general. Passive resistance, for example, is termed "assault".

MOHAMMED KHATIB OFER PRISON, WEST BANK "They want us to be in jail. The easier thing for the Israelis is to be in jail, not out. This in jail they will be more relaxed."

A former Israeli army officer, today Lasky is considered a traitor by many Israelis.

GABY LASKY HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY "I'm dancing with the wolves. I'm there all the time, I'm fighting them all the time. I'm public enemy. I've gotten threats telling me how me and my kids are going to die."

Lasky doesn't back down. Nor does her signature glitzy footwear - a sign of her unapologetic stance.

GABY LASKY HUMAN RIGHTS ATTORNEY "Every human being has the obligation to try and make the world a better place for all of us. And it is because the good people keep silent that the world looks like it does today."

She admits she cries a lot. Her conviction that she's doing the right thing for Israel and Israelis keeps her showing up day after day, in court. 

STEPHANIE FREID, CGTN, OFER PRISON IN THE ISRAELI OCCUPIED WEST BANK.