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How Israel's Elite Intelligence Unit Targets Queer Palestinians in the West Bank (www.dropsitenews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Over the decades, numerous investigations have exposed how Israeli intelligence targets LGBTQ+ people. In 2013, Vice published an investigation detailing how the Palestinian Authority’s preventative security forces, under the direction of the IDF, had isolated gay Palestinians from their communities, kept files on them, and exploited them for intelligence. In 2015, news reports revealed that a surveillance technology company run by a former Unit 8200 official had helped provide Uganda with malware allegedly used against LGBTQ+ activists.

I didn't know they could do worse, but here we are.