Journalist Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, describes how Palestinians are watched, tracked and targeted by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details through constant surveillance. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12/mohammed_mhawish

A harrowing account by Mohammed Mhawish on surveillance tech, supported in part by US tech companies, is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside. nymag.com/intelligence...

Israel’s military assault that began in the aftermath of October 7 has left Gaza unrecognizable. The devastation has been augmented by a system of surveillance: drones, facial-recognition scans, movements followed through phone tracking, Mohammed Mhawish reports.

"This is the dystopian consequence of surveillance technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes at @nymag.com >>

In a special photo essay for Local Call & @972mag.com, Oren Ziv gathered testimonies from the victims of this violence in the West Bank — mostly Palestinians, but also Israeli activists. Read their stories here >> projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...

NEW from Local Call, @972mag.com, @theguardian.com: At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention centers since 10/7, many seemingly as direct result of torture, medical neglect & food deprivation. Of those detained from Gaza under 1-in-3 were classified by the army itself as militants.

Companies are often forbidden from telling customers when they hand over data to authorities. To counter this, Israel reportedly worked with Google & Amazon on a secret system to alert the government when Israeli data is given to foreign investigators. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

INVESTIGATION: Inside Project Nimbus To secure the lucrative contract, Google & Amazon agreed to secretly notify Israel if a foreign court demands its data, and disregard their own terms of service. By Yuval Abraham www.972mag.com/project-nimb... @mekomit.bsky.social

"The first prohibits Google and Amazon from restricting how Israel uses their products…. The second obliges the companies to secretly notify Israel if a court orders them to hand over the country’s data stored on their cloud platforms…." www.972mag.com/project-nimb...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

🧵1/3 NEW INVESTIGATION: To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, Google and Amazon agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data. @972mag.com @theguardian.com @mekomit.bsky.social

"The openly genocidal soldiers — of whom there were many — razed the city of Rafah to the ground in order to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians, while those with a more liberal self-image destroyed it to create a 'security buffer zone.'" Yuval Abraham for Local Call & @972mag.com >>

"There is no recovery from genocide. But we may redirect the anguish of a world in shock to uncoil the strictures that bind Palestinians — and Jewish Israelis, too." @uscpr.bsky.social's Ahmad Moor writes at @972mag.com >>

NEW INVESTIGATION by Local Call and @972mag.com : An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

Join us Wed, Oct 22 at 12:00 pm ET for Targeting Dissent, a briefing on the intensifying crackdown on Palestinian rights advocacy in the US and the case of Mahmoud Khalil. Sign up: tinyurl.com/jhadvf97 @theimeu.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @ccrjustice.org @palestinelegal.bsky.social

‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza

“Gaza is a thread: pull on it and it will unravel all of these systems.” Under the guise of re-registration, Israel seeks to force humanitarian orgs to comply with the GHF model, turning aid into a tool for ethnic cleansing. @mekomit.bsky.social @972mag.com

Microsoft has terminated a set of services for the Israeli military after an investigation suggested Israel was using the company’s cloud computing technology for mass surveillance of Palestinians. https://cnn.it/481CRHe

BREAKING: The Guardian reports that Microsoft has terminated its contract with the Israeli military’s Unit 8200 that enabled the mass surveillance of Palestinians. This comes after a series of protests organized by the worker-led group No Azure for Apartheid. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Microsoft president Brad Smith: "I want to let you know that Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD)." blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Breaking: Microsoft disabled some cloud services used by Israel after it found the defense ministry was using them to surveil Gaza citizens.

Following Yuval Abraham's reporting, Microsoft cuts its ties with Israeli intelligence. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“Smith wrote: “We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians. We have applied this principle in every country around the world, and we have insisted on it repeatedly for more than two decades.””

Microsoft has now ruptured its ties to Israeli forces, blocking access in response to the mass surveillance of Palestinians. Unit 8200 violated their terms of service by storing the data on the Azure cloud. Microsoft requested an external inquiry on data usage www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

BREAKING: Microsoft has blocked the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services. The block comes after The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

Despite the Trump regime, it is getting costlier and costlier to invest in Israel’s genocidal project.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

BREAKING: Microsoft blocks Israeli army use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians. This follows sustained public pressure, fueled in part by reporting by our team at Local Call alongside partners at @972mag.com & @theguardian.com on Microsoft’s close relationship w/ the army.

Since being released on bail, Mahmoud Khalil has been enjoying everyday activities like cooking homemade meals and spending time with family. No matter how hard the Trump administration tries to punish him for his speech, we'll always fight to keep Mahmoud together with his family.

The US crackdown on speech didn't spring out of the blue: the template was designed years ago to target Palestinian rights advocates. This template is now being used to crush all dissent to increasingly authoritarian rule. Clip of @larafriedmandc.bsky.social from Boycott: justvision.org/boycott

A few weeks ago, Oren Ziv spoke to Ayana Gerstmann and Yuval Peleg -- two of the small group of Israeli teens declaring their refusal to enlist in mandatory army service in protest of the genocide in Gaza. Read about them here >> www.972mag.com/israeli-army... @mekomit.bsky.social @972mag.com

NEW: The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory joins countless human rights, international law, and genocide experts in saying Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

NOW, Yuval Abraham reports: the Israeli army is raiding the house of Oscar-winning director of #NoOtherLand Basel Adra, after Israeli settlers attacked his village earlier and assaulted his family member.

"If, three years ago, the army was allegedly embarrassed by the killing of a journalist, now it has become routine." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"We take house after house." Yonatan Yosef — then spokesperson for the Israeli settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, now a Jerusalem City Council member — explains the plans for the takeover of East Jerusalem in our 2012 film, My Neighbourhood. Watch the film for free >> justvision.org/myneighbourhood

Only one in four Palestinians captured by Israeli forces in Gaza were identified by the army as militants, with civilians making up the vast majority of “unlawful combatants” detained in Israeli prisons since October 7, joint investigation reveals www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

🧵 NEW INVESTIGATION by Local Call, @theguardian.com & @972mag.com: A classified Israeli army database indicates that the vast majority of the 6,000 Palestinians who have been arrested in Gaza and held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention are civilians. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

“Under what conceivable rationale should Israel...have any say whatsoever in what the future of the Gaza Strip and its inhabitants will be?” Read Diana Buttu's latest on Trump’s leaked plans to reconstruct Gaza with skyscrapers, mega projects, and a new population. zeteo.com/p/lets-call-...

Today, 250+ media outlets in 70+ countries announced a blackout in solidarity with journalists in Gaza. The global operation, led by @rsf.org & @avaaz.org, is calling on international actors to defend Palestinian journalists and force Israel to open Gaza to foreign press. rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...

We produced this video 16 months ago. The Israeli army has killed another 100+ Palestinian journalists since then. @pressfreedom.bsky.social

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

NEW INVESTIGATION: Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database indicates that at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza were civilians. @972mag.com @theguardian.com www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

"This decision of revenge, of genocidal war, was done from day one...This was planned." Watch reporter Oren Ziv speak to @democracynow.org about leaked comments from former Israeli intelligence chief saying 50 Palestinians must die for every victim of October 7. @972mag.com @mekomit.bsky.social

“Israel targeted a tent containing five journalists whom it killed, and it hasn’t even tried to give any kind of explanation for why it saw fit to kill those journalists — that’s a war crime,” CPJ’s CEO @jodieginsberg.bsky.social told @msnbc.com. Watch⤵️ www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

Investigation by Yuval Abraham for Local Call & @972mag.com: Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.

“Once Israeli leaders realized that they would face no consequences for killing Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the Arab world’s most prominent journalists, is it surprising they would conclude that they could get away with killing many more Palestinian journalists in Gaza?” — my latest @theguardian.com

Catch up on any #NN25 panels you missed like this one: The New McCarthyism: Tactics of Repression and How We Resist.

"Universities did everything in their power to suppress the student movement: suspending people, firing professors, banning clubs— Capitulation doesn’t work. The Trump admin is still fleecing them for millions of dollars," said our staff atty Dylan on a panel at @netrootsnation.bsky.social.

#NN25 FEATURED PANEL The New McCarthyism: Tactics of Repression & How We Resist August 7, 2025 | 2:15 CT | New Orleans| 20th Anniversary Netroots Nation www.youtube.com/live/93MfoVl...