Settlers burned my family’s home and used to beat us on our way to school.
Colonel Avraham Arnan, Brill’s direct superior, was focusing on one photograph. Before sending the agent to Egypt, Israel had pursued other avenues to gather intelligence on what Egypt was doing just over the canal.
he agent is back,” the analyst said as he popped his head into Shabtai Brill’s office. Brill, a major in the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate—known by its Hebrew acronym, Aman—set aside the report he was reading and got up.
Brill was used to seeing classified intelligence, but this day was special.
B’Tselem trains Palestinians in specific locations in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where tensions are high and clashes are commonplace, to use video cameras to capture those violations.
The footage exposes the Israeli and the international public to the reality of life under occupation.