Mohamed Najib
Ramallah: All Palestinians as the Israeli army digitized the occupation of the West Bank and the surveillance of the Gaza Strip through a variety of electronic devices, including high-performance infrared cameras located on the main roads of the West Bank. Security experts warn that is under surveillance.
The infrared camera is connected to a central control room equipped with security officials who analyze the footage and give instructions to the military.
The images of the face and vehicle license plates captured by the surveillance cameras are sent to the Israeli Public Security Agency called "Shin Bet" for analysis.
The Israeli army is also given software that can recognize people by scanning their faces with their mobile phones.
This system is mainly used in the old town of Hebron, where Palestinians have to go through Israeli checkpoints. With this software, you can scan an approaching person from 100 meters away and determine if that person is wanted or a threat based on information stored by other security systems. Can be done.
At the border with Gaza, the Israeli Public Security Agency uses balloons with high-resolution cameras to identify the faces of Palestinian protesters and demonstrators.
If identified as a threat, the details of that person are delivered to the sniper to target. These sophisticated cameras can also read the license plates of cars passing through Gaza from a distance of several kilometers to determine if the vehicle belongs to a suspicious person.
At 15 checkpoints along the West Bank, Israel changed daily immigration document checks for Palestinians entering the country from manual to smart systems using magnetic cards to identify their owners. .. Whether or not to enter the country is determined based on security identification.
Israeli officials claim that digitization will facilitate the immigration process for Palestinians, but for 55 years against 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank, 350,000 in East Jerusalem, and 2 million in Gaza. Many argued that it was only introduced to strengthen the occupation.
At the end of 2021, Israeli forces allowed Jewish settlers in the West Bank to monitor Palestinian construction work in District C, which is under full administrative and security control of Israel.
The settlers were given a small drone to monitor the construction of a new home in a nearby Palestinian village and report to the Israeli army about its activities.
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Even the Palestinian Authority, which maintains close ties with Israel for security, has not benefited from the new digital security.
Palestinian police officials said on October 25, 2021, in the town of Yaabed near Jenin, when two armed thieves attacked the Palestinian Bank and fled to Israel through a hole in the separation wall. Police asked the Israeli police to provide footage of the surveillance camera, but the Israeli side did not respond to the request, he explained to Arab News.
Monitoring social media profiles, using the software Pegasus for mobile phones, and 24-hour drone watching over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip enhance Israel's digital occupation of millions of Palestinians. ..
As if this wasn't enough, the Israeli government pressured social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to shut down Palestinian voices by suspending Palestinian accounts, especially during intensifying violence. I called.
Israeli security expert and analyst Eyal Arima said the 2014 massive riots failed to deter an individual attack on Israelis, so Israeli security officials used a method of intelligence. I explained to Arab News that I had to change.
"What's happening now is extensive intelligence in the West Bank with infrared cameras on the road and sensors in some areas, as well as continuous surveillance of mobile phones, social networks and the Internet. "Arima pointed out.
"No one can carry out any attack without being monitored by Israeli security officials," Arima said, as evidenced by recent security operations in the West Bank, where people involved in the violence were rapidly arrested. He added.
According to Arima, all Palestinians living in the West Bank are under the control of these digital systems. "Some Israelis have tested the extent of surveillance in the West Bank. Israeli police monitor their mobile phones through'Pegasus'during a pandemic of the new coronavirus. What they were doing caused a great deal of controversy as an invasion of privacy.
But when surveillance takes place on the West Bank, the problem is very different. Israeli intelligence has no restrictions or restrictions. They can do whatever they want, "Arima said.
Israeli security expert and analyst Yoni Ben-Menahem told Arab News, "Most of these electronic means have fought terrorism and identified dangerously wanted people. It is used to prevent invasion of Israel, which is why the Israeli army has a special unit consisting of female recruits specializing in the operation of surveillance systems. "
Ben-Menahem also mentioned another form of digital security that the Israeli army had completed building along the 60km border with the Gaza Strip. State-of-the-art systems and sensors were deployed to detect attempts to dig tunnels towards Israel and prevent underground invasion of Israel.