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Ramallah- It was dawn last Thursday, when the family of the young Palestinian man, Qusay Hamdan, from the southern village of Tabqa, woke up West BankThe sound of the door of her house being blown up and a violent raid on it ended with the assault on the head of the family (50 years old) and the arrest of two of his sons, who are twins, one of whom is Qusay.
Qusay went through harsh conditions during his arrest, including being severely beaten on the side and tightening the plastic restraints on his wrists. He collapsed during his interrogation in the “Kiryat 4” settlement in the city of Hebron, according to what he told Al Jazeera Net.
Posted on accounts
During his interrogation, Qusay was forced to unlock his mobile phone, while he was handcuffed, so the interrogator quickly wrote a post on his Facebook account, “I love Israel,” in a phenomenon that has been increasing recently, according to Palestinian institutions.
Qusay was surprised after the investigation that he was released and his phone was returned with the post on his account, noting that the investigator warned him of re-arrest if he used his account to write or republish “inflammatory” posts.
The same thing happened with the doctor at the Faculty of Sharia at Al-Quds University, Salim Rajoub, who was arrested last weekend for hours, and his detainees were published on his account. FacebookHe published a post in broken Arabic that said, “Islam calls for forgiveness, peace, and living in love (…), and I am against terrorism and the killing of innocents.”
The cases of Qusay and the university lecturer are not isolated, but the matter was repeated with the same details, or with different details, with dozens of detainees whose phones were confiscated “in a clear and clear violation of people’s privacy,” according to the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Abdullah Al-Zaghari, speaking to Al-Jazeera Net.
Al-Zaghari cited the story of a Palestinian with his 14-year-old daughter, who preferred not to mention their names or city, explaining that soldiers stopped them at a military checkpoint, confiscated the girl’s phone, and posted “inappropriate pictures” on her social media accounts.
There is no role for the Red Cross
The director of the Prisoner’s Club referred to “testimonies about dozens of detainees, especially in the Etzion Detention Center (between Bethlehem and Hebron), being forced to carry the Israeli flag, and photographing them with their hands tied, kissing the flag, and publishing them on the accounts of the prisoners themselves or the soldiers.”
He described what is happening as “a violation of all that is humanitarian in light of the absence of human rights institutions, especially the International Red Committee, which did not reveal the fate of the prisoners and the conditions of their detention inside the prisons.”
Al-Zaghari pointed out that “many arrests have been made on the grounds of posting on social media sites in support of Gaza, and they fall within the scope of freedom of expression of opinion, including children and girls, some of whom were transferred to administrative detention.”
He pointed out “large censorship by the occupation on social media sites, especially with a new law that allows arrest for browsing them.”
On November 8, it was approved The Knesset In its third reading, a law criminalizes watching “content supporting terrorism,” prohibits people from “consuming terrorist content,” and defines “terrorist organizations” as “agitation And ISIS.”
According to Al-Zaghari, “It was believed that the law targeted the Palestinians of 1948 and Jerusalem, but its application actually began against the Palestinians of the West Bank, and there are detainees who have been indicted or transferred to administrative detention based on this law.”
#News | The newspaper “Haaretz” published an article in which it reported the increasing number of arrests in Israel due to posts on social networks related to Israel’s war on Gaza.
✔️The newspaper said that more than 100 Israeli citizens, including Arabs, have been arrested since the outbreak of the war, because of their expressions on social media.
✔️According to… pic.twitter.com/0r2sBNr1Ge
— Eekad – Eekad (@EekadFacts) November 11, 2023
An attack on privacy
For its part, the Sada Social Center, which specializes in Palestinian digital rights on social networks, sees the Israeli law as “a major assault on the privacy of individuals and users and a restriction on freedom of opinion and expression,” noting that the danger in this law “represents an attempt to control and censor ideas, ideological trends, and interactive practices.” In the digital world.
According to a report by the Center, 26 male and female journalists and activists were arrested in the West Bank and more than 150 Palestinians in the occupied interior on the grounds of freedom of opinion and expression and writing publications or claiming to write publications about the Israeli aggression against Gaza strip Between October 7 of last year and November 11 of this year.
Don’t stay silent and participate
monitor #Sadi_Soshal There have been more than 11,000 digital violations of Palestinian content since the start of the aggression, but this is a negligible percentage compared to what the platforms announced (795,000 content deleted by Meta, and 60 million clips deleted by the TikTok platform), and with these numbers, today we must report the violation so that Can… pic.twitter.com/NaFIO7rDiu
— Omar Alshal (@OmarAlshal) November 8, 2023
A clear violation
For his part, lawyer Jamil Saadeh, lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs Authority, confirms the recurrence of the phenomenon of arresting Palestinians and requesting their mobile phones after last October 7, even though it violates all laws in force in the occupied territories, even the Israeli Basic Law.
Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, he added, “Many citizens were forced to hand over their phones at Israeli barriers and checkpoints, and soldiers tracked their accounts on social networks, despite the violation of the privacy of the detainees. Some of them were even charged with incitement based on their interactions.”
Jamil continued, “The Palestinian society is a conservative Eastern society, and any citizen may have private photos, and therefore his privacy must be respected, but for the Palestinian, laws are abolished.” Pointing out that “the Israeli courts deal with cases in which privacy was violated, and some of them were transferred to administrative detention without charge or trial.”
According to the Prisoners’ Club and the Prisoners’ Authority, the total number of Israeli arrests since October 7 and November 18 has risen to 2,850, adding to more than 5,000 former detainees.
