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Breaking the Silence Profile picture
@BtSIsrael
Nov 8, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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BREAKING: @washingtonpost investigation reveals IDF rollout of "Blue Wolf" — highly invasive surveillance technology to record the personal data and keep track of Palestinians living in the West Bank.
This invasion of privacy is on a whole new level.
washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
According to testimonies given by soldiers to Breaking the Silence, IDF units in the West Bank were *incentivized to compete against each other* to photograph and collect the data of as many Palestinians as possible.
In the densely populated Palestinian city of Hebron, the IDF uses 'Hebron Smart City': smart CCTV cameras, radar, movement sensors and other hi-tech equipment to identify and track the Palestinian residents' every movement, throughout the city, in real time.
The investigation also reveals how Israeli settlers who employ Palestinians use an adjacent app, White Wolf, to scan Palestinian IDs, which feeds into the same system.
We've been 'making our presence felt' in Palestinian towns and villages, on street patrols and in home invasions, for decades now. But the use of cutting edge technology to do so, and on this scale, is unprecedented.
The Orwellian undertones of this story are deeply disturbing, but hardly surprising. While Israel prides itself on its thriving hi-tech economy and sells weapons and cyber technology around the world, we've been holding Palestinians under military occupation for 54 years now.
Our total disregard for Palestinian human rights means we can use this kind of technology without ever having to justify ourselves, without having to consider the implications on the lives of those living under our control.
As our exec director @AGvaryahu said: “Whilst surveillance & privacy are at the forefront of the global public discourse, we see here another disgraceful assumption by the Israeli govt and military that when it comes to Palestinians, basic human rights are simply irrelevant.”
And finally—
This story came to light thanks to the brave soldiers who came forward to breakingthesilence.org.il to testify about what they saw and did. It is due to their efforts and all those who have broken their silence, that the occupation will eventually be brought to an end.

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In other words: ethnically cleansing the area 🧵 Image
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About 100 people were killed on Monday in an IDF strike on Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. The IDF said the building was bombed after 4 soldiers were killed by an IED nearby, and a “lookout” was detected on its roof. A 5-story building, around 200 people - bombed for a “lookout” 🧵 Image
About 20 of those who died in the bombing were children. Dozens were trapped under the rubble, some of whom were taking shelter after being driven out of the bombed areas of Jabaliya and Beit Hanoun. For a lookout. But what does the IDF mean when they say someone is a “lookout”?
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Yesterday, as thousands were fleeing from northern Gaza under threat of starvation and bombing in what is in all likelihood an implementation of the "Generals' Plan," Netanyahu's Likud Party held a "Gaza resettlement conference" nearby, overlooking the charred houses of Be'eri 🧵 Image
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Oct 21
This weekend, the IDF bombed a hospital in Jabalya and a residential complex in Beit Lahia, killing at least 120 in those two strikes alone, including many women and children.

But again, they utter the magic words “precise munitions,” trying to justify another mass killing 🧵 Image
Unsurprisingly though, the dead don’t seem to care how “precise” the weapons were. And while the army may have considered them “acceptable collateral damage,” basic moral norms say otherwise. Especially when the list of “acceptable” targets includes humanitarian safe zones.
For example, let's say the IDF fires a precision missile precisely into the Al-Tabaeen school that houses masses of displaced Gazans, like it did in early August. Was a disaster of over 90 deaths, including children, avoided? No.

But the “precise munitions” hit their target.
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Soldiers have been testifying to us for years about the ambiguous and unofficial authority that settlers (mostly Civilian Security Coordinators - CSCs) hold over IDF soldiers. Cementing this authority as official policy is just more proof of our govt's messianic-settler agenda.
"the CSC said, 'I am the commander on the field, I give the orders, when the army arrives I direct it.' The message, at the end of the day, is that during an incident it’s the CSC who directs the army, not the army that directs the CSC"
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breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/da…
To learn more about Civilian Security Coordinators and settler influence on our military, our 2017 book "The High Command" is available in full for free here:
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