Jerusalem Cameras are More Dangerous than Metal Detectors

Palestinians vowed to continue protests against the installation of surveillance cameras in the al-Aqsa mosque.

Demonstrations and conflicts have confirmed the Palestinians occupied by the occupiers of East Jerusalem and the Israeli forces in the West Bank, rejecting new surveillance cameras installed in the entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque premises. Cameras said, "A Palestinian activist of the old city of Jerusalem, Mohamed Abu al-Hemos, told Al Jazeera," They say that they do not want to deal with their companions, so they take things in their own hands and monitor the Palestinians.
"I want to leave al-Aqsa - who will watch me?" He added. "I'm coming to a worship house, it violates the individual's personal space and we reject these measures because the Palestinians are opposed to opposition, which is our right to reject it." After a security cabinet meeting on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement suggested that the ministry "all of the security measures coordinated by security techniques based on advanced technologies ... and other measures instead of metal inventors." The Israeli "planned" will be implemented within the next six months, with a budget of 100 million shekels ($ 28 million). Some of the proposed replacements for metallic detection are cameras with heat systems that detect weapons and face identifying facets. Even if metal detectors are removed, experts and lawyers cameras are still a big threat to the Palestinians and put forward another violation of international law. "These cameras have found the faces and symbols of imposing full control over the Israeli al-Haram al-Sharif, the Jordanian character is sidelined and is in the presence of Palestinian guards because real soldiers are behind the scenes seen by cameras" said Ramallah-based political analysis Vader Khaleel Shaheen told Al Jazeera. "Many Palestinians who do not deny Israeli taxes in Jerusalem, and many others in Jerusalem [illegally under Israeli law], as well as activists and others in Jerusalem, are very dangerous and harm to these Palestinians," he said. "This is a new form of monitoring and control ... Palestinians have to reject such actions because these cameras are more dangerous than metal detectors". Over a week, the Palestinians refused to enter the Al-Aqsa mosque and tried to pray outside the metal detectives after the killing of two Israeli police officers on July 14. The attack carried out by Israel's three Palestinian citizens came from behind the so-called "Jerusalem Intifada" that began in October 2015. Since the start of the uprising, 285 Palestinians have died in attacks, demonstrations and attacks. At the same time, 47 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians in car-ramming and knife attacks. Inspired the installation of metal detectives and opposition to the Palestinians and considered new measures of Israel's efforts to impose further control over the sacred base. Israeli controls its interior parts by occupying East Jerusalem's East Jerusalem, while keeping control of the Al-Aqsa blend with the Islamic Wakf, which administers the Israeli Holy Land. Israel, which unlawfully linked East Jerusalem in 1967, controls the old city in the presence of its forces and over 400 cameras, along the footsteps of the World Heritage Site. Planned plans for the establishment of similar cameras in al-Aqsa's gates for years have been floated by the Israeli government, but the Palestinian leaders and local people have been rejected.

"The Israeli government has announced that it has a large number of security personnel and guards for six months to protect this base ... these actions are not necessarily for their purpose," said a Palestinian researcher Yará Jalajal, Cairo, told Human Rights Studies, Al Jazeera. "They are permitted to assert Israel, the occupying power, security and public order, which aims to impose control and a genuine sovereignty that is not under the law of Israel." An attorney and writer Usama Halabi, based on Israeli surveillance procedures, is monitoring the Palestinians's existing position of the old city.

Halifi told Al Jazeera: "I do not understand the problem surrounding the cameras, but still technically advanced surveillance by cameras, but they can already see who is out of al-Aqsa and the old city." "The camera feeds on their computers and they can already find everything about me and they can extract my entire family tree in minutes," he said. "On a daily basis, I am monitoring the ten young people in court, watching them in surveillance cameras a week or two after they throw stones and blame them for video proof. Some soldiers and guards built their headphones in the old town And every band in the old town has a handheld camera with the film to meet them. "
Yet, for the Palestinians, the issue of establishing cameras at the Al-Aqsa mosque complex is yet another expression of Israeli control over the sacred site.
"Acknowledging new measures is to agree with Israeli control over al-Haram al-Sharif and the Palestinians," said Shahin. "It is important for us that Israel is holding its fingers on the eyes and throat of the Palestinians and we have to reject it."