The Rights to Privacy and Data Protection in Times of Armed Conflict
Video surveillance in Jerusalem’s Old City is long-standing, comprehensive, open and notorious. Roughly 40,000 residents, the vast majority of them Palestinian, live within the 0.9-square kilometre walled enclosure. The video surveillance system therein is known as Mabat 2000... The Israeli military has established a real-time video surveillance system in and around Hebron’s Old City, where roughly 700 settlers live interspersed amongst 34,000 Palestinians, which reportedly operates similarly to Mabat 2000.
Video surveillance extends to the West Bank road network. TSG IT Advanced Systems, a parastatal Israeli firm specialising in command-and-control systems, video analysis and behaviour-predictive artificial intelligence (AI), has developed and deployed an analytic CCTV system with facial recognition capabilities for the West Bank road network that can reportedly...identify irregular behaviour, and send automatic alerts.