Thread by @BtSIsrael

Major trigger warning. Especially for parents.
This @btselem video of Palestinian children being photographed in the dead of night after being pulled from their beds is currently making waves in Israel. haaretz.com/israel-news/is… Watched it? Here's a thread>>>

As bad as storming a house & forcing children out of their beds in the dead of night to take pictures is (and it is bad), it's unfortunately nothing new as far as the occupation is concerned. We've been doing it for years.
Like in this video from 2016:

"He put them up against the wall and photographed them with his smartphone. They simply told all the kids: assemble here by the wall [..] At the same time, I see that they’re starting to take photos of the kids with the phone." - 1st Sgt, Hebron, 2016
breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/da…

The IDF Spokesperson's Unit's response to the story published today was, as usual, that "procedures will be sharpened among the forces to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents."
Looks like that's working out just great.

Soldiers invade Palestinian homes almost every night in the oPt, especially in Hebron. Many times the Palestinians aren't even suspected of anything. But they're subjects w/out rights, so we do it because we can. Read our report about home invasions here: life-exposed.com/eng/

"When you conduct a search in a Palestinian's home—it's not that you need a court order. You need to want to do it & then you do it [...] In Hebron, if you're a Palestinian, I'll enter your house whenever I feel like it."—Ltn, 932nd Battalion, Hebron, 2014 breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/da…

It's worth taking a few minutes to watch Rona Segal's prizewinning short film, 'Mission: Hebron' based on interviews w/BtS testifiers (which yesterday became publicly available on @nytimes) for a better understanding of what occupation looks like in Hebron.facebook.com/watch/?v=30763…

And that's without mentioning that the @washingtonpost recently revealed that the IDF holds a database of thousands of photos of Palestinians, taken by soldiers who competed against each other to take as many photos as possible using the 'Blue Wolf' system.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…

"We don’t need suspicious signs in order to take photos—the point was to take photos. There was even like a bit of competition. And then you arrive and you see someone, “Jib al-awiya” (give me your ID), [and] you photograph him." 1st Sgt, Hebron, 2020 breakingthesilence.org.il/testimonies/da…

As the years go by, surveillance and technology become all the more integral to maintaining the occupation. We're now on Occupation 2.0.
This Sun, 1pm EST/6pm UK/8pm Jerusalem, join us for a Zoom panel event on technology, mass surveillance and occupation. bit.ly/30wT0E0