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10 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Let's review the revelations of the past few days. A dossier was leaked showing that Israel's Shin Bet has no evidence to support its charges of terrorism against six Palestinian human rights organizations.

972mag.com/shin-bet-dossi…
That report was followed by two breaking stories on Israeli surveillance technologies. Firstly, that the Israeli government is spying on Palestinians using a software called "Blue Wolf" which tracks people's movements via facial recognition software.

washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
The same day it was revealed that Palestinian activists had had their phones hacked by Israeli spyware Pegasus. A number of those activists worked or were associated with the six Palestinian human rights orgs that were slapped with terrorist designation. apnews.com/article/techno…
Palestinians have been raising alarm bells for years about how they are used as a laboratory for Israeli weapons technology that then gets exported to other oppressive regimes. These stories together are a damning portrait of just how unchecked Israeli governmental power is.

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9 Nov
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8 Nov
Palestinians should live in freedom and dignity.

Without their faces catalogued in a military database.
Without their every move surveilled.
Without their routine actions falsely criminalized.
Without their homes made so unsafe that they have no choice but to leave.

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Reminder: the US sends this military $3.8 billion per year.
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Six brave Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike protesting their illegal detention without charge or trial.

Kayed Fasfous, 114 days
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Alaa Al Araj, 89 days
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