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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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Breaking the Silence Profile picture
Jan 8
On Monday, the IDF admitted that it used a vehicle disguised as a civilian ambulance to transport soldiers during a raid on the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, last month.

And so - a quick thread on military exploitation of civilian infrastructure🧵
As the IDF knows well, medical transport vehicles lose their protected status under international law if they’re used for the purpose of attacking an enemy

And this isn’t even the first time the IDF has concealed attacking soldiers in an ambulance. Here’s a testimony from 2002 >
"There was a commando unit that came from a distance. They came in armored ambulances with Stars of David on the side and back. [...] I was surprised that an ambulance is used for concealing combat soldiers for an attack, for there are rules about using medical symbols."

>>
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Jan 5
When we say military pressure kills hostages, we’re not just basing that on a hunch. We’re relaying what the IDF itself has shown us, both in its words and in its actions, since October 7, 2023. The army knows these two goals contradict each other.

Let’s look at a few examples🧵
"It's a very thin line - both being aggressive and offense-minded and also protecting the lives of the hostages." Lt. Col. Oz Meshulam, who commands IDF infantry battalion 931, said last month. "I try not to let the fighter get involved in this at all."
ynet.co.il/news/article/b…
"The fighter is a vicious animal that goes on an aggressive attack, and therefore we as commanders choose where to operate, carefully and according to precise intel," Meshulam added, concluding that "In the end, we are here on two missions that sometimes conflict."
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Jan 2
Over 45,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Oct 7. That’s 15,000 more than the IDF estimate for total Hamas members who were alive before then. A rate of death outpacing the wars in Myanmar, Ukraine and Iraq. And Hamas still stands.

The IDF has placed pace above accuracy🧵
The @nytimes and @washingtonpost recently dropped 2 huge investigations interviewing over 100 soldiers. One details how the IDF let go of its few remaining brakes, permitting a massive increase in civilian deaths. The other analyzes the IDF’s disastrous overreliance on tech.
After the Oct 7 attack, Israel dropped many, many bombs on Gaza. More than it had ever dropped before. That same day, the IDF loosened its rules to allow up to 20 civilian deaths for each junior militant, and over 100 for a senior militant. Its target bank was depleted in days.
Read 11 tweets
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Dec 25, 2024
On Christmas Eve, the IDF's "Gazafication" of the West Bank was on full display, as 8 Palestinians, including two innocent women, were killed by drone strikes in Tulkarm, and bulldozers destroyed infrastructure in the Nur Shams refugee camp.

This is not an isolated incident 🧵
The IDF returned to routine airstrikes in the West Bank, a practice which was reserved mainly for Gaza for decades until this govt came to power in early 2023. And more firepower means more “collateral damage.” Last night, 9 Palestinians were injured, including a 10-year-old boy.
Bulldozers have reportedly destroyed part of the camp's water network, multiple houses and shops, and some of the walls of the al-Salam mosque, where Hamas militants had barricaded. One source told Haaretz that the forces’ activity focused mainly on "peeling" the roads apart.
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Dec 19, 2024
"The forces in the field call it 'the line of dead bodies'" a commander in Division 252 told @yanivkub of @haaretzcom. The line he’s describing is invisible, constantly shifting, and for any Gazans north of the Netzarim corridor, it’s the very border separating life from death.🧵
In a chilling collection of testimonies, soldiers detail the everyday realities of an IDF “kill zone,” north of the IDF corridor which bisected Gaza. Unarmed civilians posthumously labeled as terrorists by the hundreds, all while restrictions on shooting are near nonexistent.
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
One soldier describes an occasion where a teenager who crossed into the kill zone was shot dozens of times, and how his battalion commander justified killing him:

“The commander said: ‘Anyone crossing the line is a terrorist, no exceptions, no civilians. Everyone's a terrorist'"Image
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Dec 18, 2024
What can we learn from IDF spokesperson responses? Let’s take, for example, a recent report by @haaretzcom, which detailed a rapid rise in the amount of IDF airstrikes on IDF-declared safe zones. Each line of the response is a masterclass of whitewashing - let’s break them down🧵 Image
A quick recap:
In less than a month, the IDF bombed the al-Mawasi Humanitarian Zone in northern Gaza at least 8 times. The IDF has bombed safe zones before, but this is a rapid and brutal acceleration. For comparison, from late May to Sept 10, al-Mawasi was bombed 5 times. Image
“Hamas is systematically exploiting the humanitarian zones.”

This is almost exactly what they said in July, after a massive airstrike in al-Mawasi killed over 90 people. So once again: Hamas risking Gazans doesn’t mean we’re free to realize that risk.
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