The daily “Calcalist” reveals that the Israeli police used the spyware intensively, without judicial supervision.
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Murder suspects, but also organizers of events against the former Prime Minister Benyamin Nethanyahu: According to the Israeli economic daily Calcalist, the Israeli font used, since 2013, the pegasus spyware against citizens of the country, without real control and out of any clear legal framework.
Pegasus, edited by the Israeli company NSO Group, allows to take control remotely from a phone, almost undetectably. Once installed, the software allows you to copy all messages, including those exchanged on secure applications, put the phone on listening, or access the geolocation of its user. If officially pegasus can only be monitored by terrorists and criminals, a series of surveys conducted in the summer of 2021 by seventeen media, including [Nute], and coordinated by Forbidden Stories had revealed that multiple customers. used to spy on lawyers, human rights activists, journalists or political opponents.
In an article of 18 January, Calcalist, without revealing the identity of its sources, describes for the first time and in a very detailed manner several or not files, in which the spyware was used by the Israeli police. .
So far, and despite significant suspicions, no evidence of the use of the software by Israel against its own citizens had been brought: in November 2021, the Frontline Defenders NGO had demonstrated that telephones Of several Palestinian human rights activists had been infected by the spyware, without being able to identify who was behind the operation.
Political monitoring
The most burning revelations of Calcalist concern the supervision of the telephones of several opponents to Benyamin Nethanyahu, whose identity has not been specified. “The order to undergo citizens who are not guilty or suspects of any crime has been given by senior police officers, without a judicial mandate and without the supervision of a judge,” writes Calcalist.
The Israeli police challenged the information on a daily basis, affirming in a statement that it “acts in accordance with the laws, and solicits, where necessary, court decisions [for the supervision of suspects] . “In addition, it has neither invalmed nor confirmed using or using Pegasus, explaining that it” can not make any comments regarding the tools it uses “.
for the daily Haaretz ,” This information, if proven, show how secret monitoring culture of the Shin Beth [ Israeli domestic information was transmitted to the police, who unable to develop such tools itself, then turned to NSO Group. ” According to Calcalist, Pegasus began to be massively used by the police after the appointment at the end of 2015 from Roni Alsheikh, previously deputy director of Shin Beth.