Executive Summary
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is marked by the systematic violation of digital rights through state-sponsored surveillance, censorship, and structural digital inequality. These practices, including bio-metric surveillance, arbitrary arrests based on online activity, social media censorship, and denial of technological infrastructure, constitute a broader strategy of control that mirrors and reinforces the physical restrictions of occupation. The use of advanced surveillance technologies not only infringes on Palestinians' fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of expression, but also threatens global human rights norms through the international export of these technologies.
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The Future of Warfare and Global Accountability
Date posted: May 20, 2025
By MIFTAH
Executive Summary
The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is marked by the systematic violation of digital rights through state-sponsored surveillance, censorship, and structural digital inequality. These practices, including bio-metric surveillance, arbitrary arrests based on online activity, social media censorship, and denial of technological infrastructure, constitute a broader strategy of control that mirrors and reinforces the physical restrictions of occupation. The use of advanced surveillance technologies not only infringes on Palestinians' fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of expression, but also threatens global human rights norms through the international export of these technologies.
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Israel’s Reproductive Genocide in the Gaza Strip
Date posted: April 29, 2025
By MIFTAH
Executive Summary
The ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip has compounded several humanitarian and legal violations, particularly inrelation to the reproductive rights of Palestinian women. Since the launch of its military offensive in October 2023, Israelhas systematically targeted Palestinian women in ways that undermine their ability to survive, give birth, and raisechildren. More than 12,300 women have been killed, 4,700 women and children are missing, and approximately 800,000women have been forcibly displaced. An estimated one million women and girls now suffer from acute food insecurity.Israel’s actions constitute a deliberate attempt to impair the reproductive capacities of Palestinian women, aimed atdismantling the future of Palestinian society. Through the bombing of shelters, destruction of hospitals, blockading ofmedical and hygiene supplies, and attacks on fertility clinics and maternity wards, Israel’s policy of erasure is notincidental, it is intentional.
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Israel’s Attack on UNRWA and Its Implications for Palestinian Refugees
Date posted: March 05, 2025
By MIFTAH
Executive Summary
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is vital inproviding humanitarian aid, education, and health services to Palestinian refugees across Jordan, Lebanon,Syria, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Beyond its humanitarian role, UNRWA represents aninternational commitment to Palestinian refugees' right of return, as established in UN General AssemblyResolution 194 in 1948. However, Israel has long sought to undermine the agency through financial, political,and military means.Recent Israeli actions have escalated, with the Israeli Knesset passing legislation banning UNRWAoperations in areas under Israeli control, effectively revoking its legal status. Concurrently, Israel hasintensified military attacks on UNRWA facilities. In the Gaza Strip since October 2023, Israeli forces havetargeted 310 UNRWA sites, destroying schools and killing 273 UNRWA employees alongside hundreds ofcivilians sheltering in its facilities. Throughout the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military has been turningUNRWA facilities into military bases and detention centers, and has closed UNRWA’s headquarters in EastJerusalem. These actions violate multiple international legal agreements and aim to erase Palestinian refugeeidentity and their legal rights.
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