Any Palestinian is exposed to monitoring by the Israeli Big Brother’
Testimonies from people who worked in the Israeli Intelligence Corps tell of a system where there were no boundaries
Fri 12 Sep 2014 15.03 BSTFirst published on Fri 12 Sep 2014 10.01 BST
‘Our work has serious impact on the lives of many people’
I enlisted in the Intelligence Corps with a clear understanding that regarding anything that involves the Palestinian arena, I will engage in self-defence. Throughout my service in my unit I did and encountered things that seemed irrelevant from a security standpoint, and I did not have a clear conscience participating in such activities. Contrary to my expectations, our database included not only security-related intelligence but also personal and political information. That is to say, on a personal level, there is no respect for Palestinian privacy.
From a political standpoint, information is collected that can serve to manipulate Israeli, Palestinian and international politics.