The level of tech surveillance that Israel imposes on the Palestinian territories is both astounding and awful, writes Ori Givati.
,” a report detailing Israel’s extensive use of digital and biometric surveillance technologies in the occupied Palestinian territories. The report uses Hebron and East Jerusalem as case studies through which to elaborate on the different systems Israel uses to surveil Palestinians.
This latest revelation represents another facet of the facial recognition and mass surveillance systems employed in the city of Hebron, alongside “,” a smartphone facial recognition app that matches photos of Palestinian civilians taken by soldiers with data we maintain in our database on each and every Palestinian resident of the occupied territories.
As my IDF commander told me the last time I served in the occupied territories, these methods are used to “make sure the entire Palestinian population feels like they cannot lift their heads up.” Since then, our testifiers tell us this is still very much the norm. A Palestinian living under Israeli military control today walks around knowing that our military can not only invade their home whenever we want, we can now also track them wherever they are.
Most Israelis, unfortunately, have unquestioningly internalized this logic. Sometimes, the authorities will go to even further lengths, saying that surveillance systems amount to “efforts to improve the quality of life for the Palestinian population.” In other words, our total control over every element of the lives of the people we hold under military dictatorship—including storing their biometric data—is for their own good.
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