Employees, from police officers to tax officials, often receive an encrypted message on their own phones or their spouses' instructing them to go to a specific location at a specific time to "meet a friend for tea".
At the meeting point, the employee is approached by a man - or occasionally a woman - who discreetly hands over a sealed envelope containing the money before vanishing without further interaction.
Observers are baffled at how Hamas can pay officials as Gaza is isolated and largely reduced to rubble.
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Or maybe they can, & do?
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Apparently, Israel is intercepting a couple of millions of calls and texts every day, so much so that it’s hard to find storage space so that they could wade through them all, or maybe they’re not…but the Israelis just don’t have enough bad PR already that they need to get more by announcing this?
View attachment 30392Armed with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity, Unit 8200 began building a powerful new mass surveillance tool: a sweeping and intrusive system that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians, which is even more intrusive and confusing and complex if the Palestinians don’t have phones.
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
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