Zuhdi Shubeitah
العربية

Electronic Informing and the Israeli Occupation

The article examines seizures of surveillance cameras and recordings by Israeli forces during incursions in towns of the occupied West Bank, and describes raids in Ramallah and al-Bireh and their impact on residents and movement.

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Zuhdi ShubeitahBanking executive (former)
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-        10-12-2018

-        The surveillance cameras installed in some shops, institutions, petrol stations, companies and even homes...in Palestinian cities and towns in the occupied West Bank have become an exposed target for the Israeli occupation forces, which seize them by force, break down doors, and confiscate the recording tapes found in them during incursions by the occupation forces into Palestinian cities and villages, in order to obtain guiding information from these tapes about the movements of Palestinian youths believed to have carried out resistance operations and who think they entered into the Palestinian towns and cities. These operations have been repeated in recent years, and the last of them was today, Monday...after a shooting attack on a settlers’ bus last night...near the Israeli settlement of Ofra...near the cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh...and the Israeli occupation forces were unable to catch up with them during or after that operation...!
The Israeli occupation forces stormed areas and buildings in the cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh throughout the day and are still doing so, and conducted searches and threw hundreds of tear-gas canisters and rubber bullets at Palestinians who pelted these forces with stones, and the occupation forces occupied the roofs of buildings and apartment blocks at the entrances to and in areas of al-Bireh and Ramallah throughout the day....and still into the evening, in addition to storming the Palestinian official news agency (WAFA)...

-        The mentioned cameras constitute a real problem for their owners...because their recorded tapes, which are confiscated by force of arms and by breaking down doors, provide

-        information and a roadmap....for the Israeli occupation army...about the movements of Palestinian citizens, and their private means of transport, especially since the range of the cameras that are installed, to my knowledge, covers the streets and corners near the shops that own the mentioned cameras..!

-        The Israeli occupation army cares nothing for agreements, understandings, coordination, or international laws...and does not recognise any of the classifications called.....Areas (A)! as they came in the Oslo Accord, which are subject to the sovereignty of the Palestinian National Authority....!! It does not hesitate to close the entrances to the two cities and disrupt the movement and transport of university and school students and employees who come from other governorates to attend in Ramallah daily, in addition to the ordinary citizens who head to these two cities daily by the tens of thousands and who turned back on their heels...because they were unable to enter these two cities...!

-        An odious occupation....May God help...guardian of the steadfast Palestinian people on their land...!

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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “Electronic Informing and the Israeli Occupation” (English translation of «الوشاية الالكترونية والاحتلال الاسرائيلي», originally published 19 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/electronic-informing-and-the-israeli-occupation

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