The Israeli army is recruiting former intelligence officers from the Shin Bet to spy on Palestinians living in Israel under the pretext of combating the coronavirus, Israel’s Walla news site revealed.
The site quoted senior sources in the Home Front Command as saying that the army has contacted former officers in the Shabak, who are known for their knowledge of Arabs living in Israel, and asked them to join a new “security body” tasked with tracking coronavirus infections.
About half of israelis fully endorse their apartheid regime & believe the Palestinian people should not have a right to vote in their own country https://t.co/5FzU7RefaF
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) September 28, 2020
A former army officer, who had been contacted by the army, told the news site that while the official aim of the new “security body” is to help obtain information about coronavirus infections within the Palestinian community in Israel, he fears the new body has greater plans for the future.
A member of the Israeli Knesset, MK Aida Touma-Solomon of the Arab Joint List said the report paves the way for more legal violations against Arab citizens.
The late South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada said Israel's apartheid rule over Palestinians is even worse than South Africa's apartheid regime.
Other racial and social justice leader have called for action to end Israeli apartheid ➡️ https://t.co/3xTXfH2AKi pic.twitter.com/MIouxoYP8N
— BDS movement (@BDSmovement) October 6, 2020
Israel views the Palestinians who remained in their homes in historic Palestine and who later became citizens of Israel as a demographic threat.
The former Director of Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet, Yuval Diskin, publicly said that his apparatus would pursue every Israeli- Arab who refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state while Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has repeatedly described them as “demographic time bomb”.
Today, Palestinian citizens of Israel represent 21 percent of the country’s population.
(MEMO, PC, Social Media)
