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Appeal to Netanyahu and the Ombudsman: To cancel the recruitment of GSS members to fight in Corona in Arab society
Following the publication in Walla!
NEWS, Adalah sent a letter to Prime Minister Mandelblit and the commander of the Home Front Command demanding that they intervene in the program to integrate GSS veterans into formulating the situation in Arab and Druze society.
"The security of the epidemic will deepen the lack of trust," they wrote.
The IDF initially denied the details
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Avichai Mandelblit
Aida Thomas Suleiman
Yoav Itiel
Monday, 05 October 2020, 21:28
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The Director General of Adalah - the Legal Center for the Rights of the Arab Minority in Israel, Hassan Jabarin, addressed a letter today (Monday) to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and Home Front Command Commander Major General Uri Gordin To help formulate the situation in Arab and Druze society for information purposes in the Corona crisis, as revealed in Walla!
NEWS.
In the letter, Jabarin stated that "the security of the epidemic treatment among the Arab population is prohibited as both discriminatory and racist. The employment of GSS personnel and GSS retirees for intelligence purposes exceeds the powers of the Home Front Command as defined in the Civil Defense Law. It is a civil matter and is not of interest to the security personnel or security bodies. "
He also called for "avoiding any attempt at 'security' to deal with the crisis, among Arab citizens, including refraining from recruiting GSS personnel to monitor Arab citizens."
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"The cooperation will be harmed."
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Jabarin quoted Supreme Court President Esther Hayut as saying of the GSS's that "the choice to use the state's preventive security organization for the purpose of monitoring those who do not seek to harm it, without the consent of the surveillance objects, is extremely difficult." .
According to the Supreme Court president, "exceptional measures taken here are in relation to crisis situation, unusual and rare by any measure.
We must safeguard unusual events we are facing these days does not leave us with a slippery slope of exceptional measures and offensive without justification. "
Jabarin said that as the government wants to stop the spread of the corona virus among Arab citizens, it must stop the spread of the epidemic among the treatment population The Arab from the security angle, and to treat these citizens as equal citizens. According to him, "the activation of former GSS members indicates a hostile and unequal treatment of the Arab population."
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NEWS
Fury in Arab society over GSS follow-up to explain corona crisis: "Racist decision"
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"slippery slope".
The letter sent by Adalah to the Prime Minister and the Attorney General
He mentioned that "the perception of the civilian status of the Arabs in Israel comes from a security speculum, and was characteristic of a prohibited policy that prevailed during the military administration and thereafter. Similar to the High Court.
The petition revolves around GSS intervention in Arab education in Israel, regarding the process of appointing candidates for teaching through the position of Deputy Head of the Arab Education Division. "Even then, the state pledged to the court that there will be no GSS interventions in appointing teachers in the Arab education system." Teeth.
"In all likelihood, the use of security tools will deepen the distrust of the authorities involved in the spread of the Corona epidemic, and will harm cooperation with them," the Adalah CEO stated, noting that the center has warned since the beginning of the crisis that intervening security agencies shortens human rights abuses. .
More on Walla!
NEWS
The IDF is recruiting GSS personnel to monitor Druze and Arabs for information purposes in the Corona crisis
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"The corona is a civilian and not a security matter."
East Jerusalem (Photo: Roni Kanfo)
MK Aida Toma Suleiman (joint list) also sent a letter to Mandelblit, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, Minister Michael Bitton and Home Front Command commander following the publication. "Instead of looking for indirect and strange ways that claim to deal with the rising morbidity rate in Arab society," she wrote, she
said, "GSS surveillance of Arab citizens" will only perpetuate the long-standing perception that Arab citizens are an enemy and a threat treated with security tools. "
She added that "especially in these difficult days, when the lack of training in the government and its authorities is only increasing, the recruitment of GSS and intelligence personnel to gather information and information among citizens in general and the Arab public in particular will lead to the exact opposite result, increase the sense of alienation." I am facing predatory moves in the rights of Arab citizens. "
"It is better for the government and the Ministry of Health to cooperate directly with the leadership of the Arab public."
Thomas Suleiman
The appeal of Adalah and Thomas Suleiman joins the call of Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Hemed Amar from Yisrael Beiteinu, and the chairman of the joint list faction, MK Ahmad Tibi, who announced that they would contact Defense Minister Bnei Gantz to stop the move.
In addition, a debate on the issue is expected in the Knesset at the initiative of MKs Ofer Kasif and Thomas Suleiman (joint list) and of the organizations "Abraham Initiatives", "Front for the Defense of Democracy" and the Committee of Arab Authorities in Israel.
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