Inside Israel’s surveillance machine - 2023

Palestinian existence in Jerusalem is under threat - carefully watched, recorded and restricted. In the Old City’s narrow streets and alleys, cameras are inescapable.

In the second episode of a two-part special, Tariq Nafi reports from the occupied West Bank, on how Israel’s surveillance machine infiltrates the lives of Palestinians. He also speaks with a former Israeli lieutenant in Unit 8200 - the elite intelligence unit responsible for spying on Palestinians.

Contributors:
Rula Jamal - Head of Monitoring & Documentation, Al Haq
Jalal Abukhater - Writer
Amal Sumarin - Silwan resident
Helga Tawil-Souri - Associate Professor, NYU
Israeli former Lieutenant Eli - Unit 8200

#Unit8200 #Palestine #Apartheid #Surveillance #RedWolf #FacialRecognition
#Silwan #Documentary

Fact Sheet: Israeli Surveillance & Restrictions on Palestinian Movement | IMEU – 2021

The Israeli government closely monitors the communications and movements of millions of Palestinians in the occupied territories (West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza), who have lived under Israeli military rule since 1967, and inside Israel, making Palestinians one of the most surveilled people in the world. 
This mass surveillance is part of a complex web of control Israel has imposed on Palestinians, particularly in the occupied territories. This system of control includes restricting the physical movement of people and goods, dividing and isolating Palestinian cities and towns from one another and the outside world, and suppressing freedom of speech on and offline.
The following fact sheet provides an overview of Israel’s methods of surveillance and physical control over Palestinians in the occupied territories.

#RedWolf #BlueWolf #Pegasus #Biometrics #FacialRecognition
#surveillance #Report #Occupation #Apartheid #maps

Israel Is Using a Vast Network of Biometric Cameras to Terrorize Palestinians - Truthout – June 2023

The facial recognition surveillance system violates Palestinians’ human rights to freedom of movement and privacy.

Israel is deepening its system of apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories by using artificial intelligence-powered biometric facial recognition technology to track and restrict the movements of Palestinian people.

Facial recognition technology identifies and categorizes people on the basis of their physical features, including race, ethnicity, gender, age and disability status.

#Israel #Palestine #Apartheid #Technology #FacialRecognition #surveillance #AI #Biometrics

Step-by-step: How Israel Police used NSO’s Pegasus to spy on citizens - CTech – 2022

Dozens of investigators in Israel Police are using the different capabilities of NSO’s Pegasus system in order to intimately track intelligence targets. Some of these targets are dangerous criminals, but Calcalist’s exposé revealed that some are citizens that were labeled as dangerous after it became apparent that their political views oppose those of the Israeli government under the leadership of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

#Palestine #Pegasus #NSO
#spyware #surveillance

Nowhere to hide: The impact of Israel's digital surveillance regime on the Palestinians | Middle East Institute – 2022

Over the course of 2020 and 2021, groundbreaking investigations revealed in stark detail Israeli authorities’ intensifying use of surveillance and predictive technologies to police and control Palestinians. Subjecting Palestinians to such scrutiny from security and military apparatuses narrows their expressive spaces and plunges them into a state of constant anxiety. This practice also carries out a commercial purpose: Occupied Palestine effectively functions as an open-air laboratory for Israel to test techniques of espionage and surveillance before selling them to repressive regimes around the world. This commerce has troubling implications, particularly as more governments have leveraged digital monitoring tools against political opponents, activists, journalists, civil society workers, and others deemed “threatening.”

#surveillance #Palestine #Apartheid #Techology #RedWolf

The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft – MintPress - June 2023

AMintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the notorious Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have attained positions of influence in many of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.

The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population, amassing kompromat on individuals for the purposes of blackmail and extortion. Spying on the world’s rich and famous, Unit 8200 hit the headlines last year, after the Pegasus scandal broke. Former Unit 8200 officers designed and implemented software that spied on tens of thousands of politicians and likely aided in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

#NSO #Pegasus #Israel #Unit8200 #ProjectNimbus #Google #Meta #Facebook #Microsoft #Intel #spyware #surveillance

🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine war: The 'war on terror' continues to target pro-Palestine activists | Middle East Eye – 06/11/2023

In the aftermath of 10/7, the post-9/11 repressive policies are back in full swing as the US government targets activists and Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities

Of course, the targeting and surveillance of Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian communities did not begin after 9/11: a 2021 Project South report, "Spying on the Margins", documented the history of US racist and Islamophobic surveillance stretching back to the colonial period.

#Palestine #Surveillance

the targeting and surveillance of Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian communities did not begin after 9/11: a 2021 Project South report, "Spying on the Margins", documented the history of US racist and Islamophobic surveillance stretching back to the colonial period.

https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FINAL-Project-South_Spying-on-the-Margins_04.26.2021.pdf

#Palestine #Report #Surveillance

🇵🇸 TARGETING PALESTINE - Declassified Australia – 03/11/2023

The Pine Gap US surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia is collecting an enormous range of communications and electronic intelligence from the brutal Gaza-Israel battlefield – and this data is being provided to the Israel Occupation Forces. 

Two large Orion geosynchronous signals intelligence satellites, belonging to the US and operated from Pine Gap, are located 36,000 kms above the equator over the Indian Ocean. From there, they look down on the Middle East, Europe and Africa, and gather huge amounts of intelligence data to beam back to the Pine Gap base.

#Palestine #Gaza #Surveillance #Ozz #Australia #FiveEyes #Nato #US #Israel #IOF #PineGap

🇵🇸 Gaza is a weapons lab for the arms industry w/Antony Loewenstein | The Chris Hedges Report

Whether it's drone technology or the infamous Pegasus spy software, Israel has long developed and refined repressive technologies used by governments around the world by testing them on Palestinians. Antony Loewenstein, journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a deep dive into the disturbing links between Israeli Apartheid, the arms industry, and global repression of civilian populations.

Previous post with Anthony Loewenstein 1 | 2

#Palestine #Irsael #Arms #AIA #AI #Technology #ArmsTrade #Drones #Book #Author #ArmsIndustry #AnthonyLoewenstein #Surveillance
08/12/2023

🇵🇸 A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey by Hany Abu-Assad | 2008

Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Hany Abu Assad | 4 minutes

Intent on making a film, a group of young boys don't let limited resources
stand in their way. They decide to go where the cameras are... AbuAssad's
(Paradise Now, Rana's Wedding, Ford Transit) short was produced under the
auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as part of a collection of works by artists from around the world.

#Palestine #OPT #TheWall #Wall #WallOfSeperation #Occupation #WestBank #ShortFilm #Documentary #Fiction #Film #HanyAbuAssad #Camera #Surveillance
#Apartheid

🇵🇸 Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed | +972mag

Top Israeli government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the ICC and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe, a joint investigation reveals.

The multi-agency operation, which dates back to 2015, has seen Israel’s intelligence community routinely surveil the court’s current chief prosecutor Karim Khan, his predecessor Fatou Bensouda, and dozens of other ICC and UN officials. Israeli intelligence also monitored materials that the Palestinian Authority submitted to the prosecutor’s office, and surveilled employees at four Palestinian human rights organizations whose submissions are central to the probe.

According to sources, the covert operation mobilized the highest branches of Israel’s government, the intelligence community, and both the civilian and military legal systems in order to derail the probe.

#ICC #Surveillance #Hacking

🇵🇸 Shirion Collective: The Secret AI-Surveillance Network Targeting Pro-Palestinian Protesters

Daniel Linden, a tech entrepreneur from Florida, is a key figure behind the Shirion Collective, a pro-Israel #DisinformationNetwork targeting pro-Palestinian activists in the US, UK, and Australia. Shirion harasses activists, offers bounties for identifying protesters, spreads conspiracy theories, and claims to use #AI for #surveillance. Linden, who also co-authored an OnlyFans guidebook, has been linked to various dubious ventures and operates Shirion’s social media and crowdfunding efforts. Despite Shirion’s claims of advanced technology and influential connections, its true capabilities and intentions remain shrouded in mystery

Shirion runs a private Telegram channel that currently has 885 members. The channel is further separated into rooms for discussing events in certain territories (e.g., Canada and Latin America) or for coordinating online activity, such as mass reporting of accounts.

#ShirionCollective