video : Esercito israeliano installa un vasto database per i palestinesi nei checkpoints
Israeli army setting up extensive database with personal details of Palestinians collected at checkpoints
The
personal details of West Bank Palestinian men that the army recently
began collecting is intended for an anti-terror database. Career and
reserve officers said the hope is that the information, from randomly
selected individuals, can be used to foil terror attacks and to help the
security forces to operate after such attacks.
>>> Israeli army erects West Bank checkpoints to collect
As Haaretz reported Wednesday,
the army recently began to collect personal details of West Bank
Palestinian men. Soldiers set up temporary checkpoints, requiring young
men who pass through to fill out forms listing their name, age,
telephone number, identification number, type of vehicle and license
number. They also must submit a photocopy of their ID and giving both
the origin and destination of the trip that brought them to the
checkpoint.
The details are collected randomly,
from young men — women, children and old people are exempt — who aren’t
suspected of a crime or who have a police record. Soldiers who took
part in the activity say the aim is to obtain as many details about the
people they detain as possible.
The checkpoints operate in the early morning,
when large numbers of Palestinians are on the way to work, further
exacerbating the usual rush-hour traffic jams.
The
soldiers at each checkpoint must submit at least 100 completed forms
for each shift, while the quota for the foot patrols is 30.
Soldiers in compulsory service, not to mention soldiers doing reserve duty, have bridled at the new policy, questioning the invasion of privacy that it entails as well as the disturbance to daily life. rime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted on
several occasions about Israel’s use of “big data” to foil terror
attacks. But until now the information was scraped from social media and
signals intelligence by the army’s Unit 8200 and the Shin Bet security
service.
The
outgoing chief of Central Command, Maj. Gen. Roni Numa, spoke about the
Israel Defense Forces dealing with “lone-wolf assailants.”
“In
the past three years we have dealt with changes in the Palestinian
arena,” Numa said. “In addition to organized terror and spontaneous
terrorism we’ve learned to deal with for dozens of years, we’ve had to
find a solution to ‘inspired terror.’ During this period intelligence
and operative tools were developed. Since the outbreak of the recent
terror wave hundreds of intentions to carry out attacks were detected
and thwarted.”
Ron Zaidel of Breaking the Silence said this was “ratcheting up the surveillance of the general Palestinian population.”
“It
seems this is a project to set up an extensive databank. Another
example that ruling millions of Palestinians requires us to improve the
soldiers’ methods in order to deepen the occupation and protect the
settlements,” he said.
Meretz
party Secretary General Mossi Raz said “the IDF is again using
practices of intimidation and threats over civilian population, creating
an illegal reserve of personal details. Instead of our children serving
the IDF they are carrying out policing jobs that would put dark regimes
to shame.”
The IDF said its forces were carrying out
inspections in the West Bank as part of “an operative perception and to
prevent error, while attempting to disrupt the residents’ routine in a
minimal way. The detained drivers are asked a few questions, used for
security needs. In contrast to the report, there is no quota the
soldiers have to fill.”
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