2014-09-13 PALESTTINE: 43 Israeli soldiers and officers in open letter to IDF Chief of Staff - denounce oppression of Palestinians by Unit 8200 - electtronic surveillance - refuse to participate in its activities.
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[via Nana - Israeli news outlet]
Deliberately harming innocent persons. Inexcusable methods of intelligence gathering. Rare testimonies by members of Unit 8200 make NSA look amateurish...
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"In order to effectively control the Palestinian people, their lives are interfered with in any possible way. It is horrible..." Nadav
"The people that are placed under surveillance for such purposes are not terrorists. These are not people that recruit suicide bombers... We are talking about people and things that have nothing to do with protecting the security of the State of Israel. Not every Palestinian is the enemy, but Unit 8200 treats all of them as such." Noa
We are talking about young bright man and women, who served for years in IDF, intercepted terror plots... but they came to the conclusion that the goal is not to stop the next terror act...
"There is a recording of an Israeli Shin Beet agent, trying to recruit a Palestinian. He says: Your wife's brother suffers from cancer. And he mentions it again and again. It is not clear if it is an offer or a threat, relative to access to hospital care..."
"If you have particular sexual orientation, Israeli intelligence would use it to pressure you..." Particularly homosexuality, which is unacceptable in the Palestinian society.
"In early 2003 there was a terror incident in Tel Aviv. IDF decided to respond by bombing a welfare center of Fatah in Gaza. Fatah was not related to the terror incident, and the building had not relationship to military or terror activity, it was a welfare center... Typically, Officer A of Unit 8200 was supposed to verify that the building was empty, so that it could be bombed. But in this case, the order was the opposite. Officer A of Unit 8200 was ordered to verify that the building was occupied by people, no matter who. Officer A decided to disobey, and refused to provide the green light, although helicopters were already in the air. He was dismissed. Later we were told that it was an operation of targeted killing of a wanted terrorist, and Officer A got mixed up and did not perform his duty."
http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1081241&sid=126
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[via Nana - Israeli news outlet]
Deliberately harming innocent persons. Inexcusable methods of intelligence gathering. Rare testimonies by members of Unit 8200 make NSA look amateurish...
____
"In order to effectively control the Palestinian people, their lives are interfered with in any possible way. It is horrible..." Nadav
"The people that are placed under surveillance for such purposes are not terrorists. These are not people that recruit suicide bombers... We are talking about people and things that have nothing to do with protecting the security of the State of Israel. Not every Palestinian is the enemy, but Unit 8200 treats all of them as such." Noa
We are talking about young bright man and women, who served for years in IDF, intercepted terror plots... but they came to the conclusion that the goal is not to stop the next terror act...
"There is a recording of an Israeli Shin Beet agent, trying to recruit a Palestinian. He says: Your wife's brother suffers from cancer. And he mentions it again and again. It is not clear if it is an offer or a threat, relative to access to hospital care..."
"If you have particular sexual orientation, Israeli intelligence would use it to pressure you..." Particularly homosexuality, which is unacceptable in the Palestinian society.
"In early 2003 there was a terror incident in Tel Aviv. IDF decided to respond by bombing a welfare center of Fatah in Gaza. Fatah was not related to the terror incident, and the building had not relationship to military or terror activity, it was a welfare center... Typically, Officer A of Unit 8200 was supposed to verify that the building was empty, so that it could be bombed. But in this case, the order was the opposite. Officer A of Unit 8200 was ordered to verify that the building was occupied by people, no matter who. Officer A decided to disobey, and refused to provide the green light, although helicopters were already in the air. He was dismissed. Later we were told that it was an operation of targeted killing of a wanted terrorist, and Officer A got mixed up and did not perform his duty."
http://news.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1081241&sid=126
