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It is being called the world's
largest open prison. The Gaza Strip. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:25 | |
Penned in by walls, barbed wire and
gun turrets. The 1.8 million people | 0:00:25 | 0:00:32 | |
living here can only get into Israel
with special permission. And even if | 0:00:32 | 0:00:39 | |
their lives depend on it, they have
to enter through here. The Haartez | 0:00:39 | 0:00:45 | |
Crossing, the main gateway into
Israel. -- Haaretz. This is the | 0:00:45 | 0:01:02 | |
story of the desperate choices
people have to make. | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
It is the story of how the Israeli
state seeks to protect its citizens. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:20 | |
I wouldn't rule out that 9000 people
are still alive, they don't even | 0:01:20 | 0:01:24 | |
know they were about to be killed.
And of those who now lives tortured | 0:01:24 | 0:01:29 | |
by shame and regret. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
This is a film about Palestinians to
collaborate with the Israeli state. | 0:01:39 | 0:01:44 | |
Those who would work for the enemy. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:50 | |
In May 2017, the ruling Hamas
government in Gaza released this | 0:01:56 | 0:02:02 | |
video to a shocked public. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
Some Palestinian men had apparently
been caught working for Israel in | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
Gaza. They were explaining how they
were recruited. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:19 | |
Each had been cleverly targeted
according to their needs and | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
beliefs. They were then recruited by
Israeli agents to kill a senior | 0:02:36 | 0:02:44 | |
leader of the Hamas military wing. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:49 | |
He was one of those behind a series
of bombings in 2002, killing and | 0:02:58 | 0:03:03 | |
wounding Israeli citizens. He
received a nine life sentences for | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
murder. Bartee was released in a
controversial prisoner exchange in | 0:03:07 | 0:03:15 | |
2011. -- but he was. Mahmoud is one
of the founders of Hamas. He had | 0:03:15 | 0:03:29 | |
known him for years. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:34 | |
But somebody seemed to think that's
Fuqaha was still active. This man | 0:03:52 | 0:04:01 | |
received his instructions on the
24th of March, 2017. He outlined the | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
plan in the Hamas confessional
video. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:08 | |
Hamas officials say that this is
Ashraf, caught on CCTV as he walks | 0:04:15 | 0:04:21 | |
past the hospital, into the yard.
And towards his target's parking | 0:04:21 | 0:04:24 | |
lot. Fuqaha had spent a family day
on the beach. He was alone in his | 0:04:24 | 0:04:35 | |
car. The gunman followed him,
knocked on his window, and shot him | 0:04:35 | 0:04:41 | |
five times. Ashraf's job was done.
Hamas had lost one of its key | 0:04:41 | 0:04:50 | |
assets, and there was an out pouring
of grief at Fuqaha's funeral. Shoot | 0:04:50 | 0:05:00 | |
-- soon after, Ashraf and his
suspected accomplices were arrested. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
In their confessions, they warned
the audience not to fall for Israeli | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
recruiters. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:20 | |
Days after these confessions were
filmed, all three men were executed | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
as traitors, and as a warning to
others. We cannot verify the | 0:05:28 | 0:05:36 | |
testimonies in the video. Hamas
would not share there evidence. But | 0:05:36 | 0:05:42 | |
collaborating with Israel is not
such a rare thing here. Working for | 0:05:42 | 0:05:48 | |
Israel, the security forces, is a
matter of taboo here among | 0:05:48 | 0:05:53 | |
Palestinians. I am on my way to a
prison to speak to an inmate who | 0:05:53 | 0:05:58 | |
knows able to bow to the subject. --
knows a lot about. According to the | 0:05:58 | 0:06:08 | |
guards at this Palestinian jail, a
quarter of the inmates are convicted | 0:06:08 | 0:06:12 | |
collaborators. This inmate runs a
support group for prisoners who have | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
worked for the Israeli state. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
Ivory and told me that Israeli
recruiters prey on the needs of | 0:06:40 | 0:06:45 | |
people in Gaza. -- Ibrahim told me. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
The Israeli authorities told us they
do not try to recruit people and is | 0:07:30 | 0:07:35 | |
vulnerable situations. -- in these
vulnerable situations. Most of those | 0:07:35 | 0:07:43 | |
in prison for collaboration have
been prosecuted for simply giving | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
information to the Israelis. But
Ashraf, and others convicted of | 0:07:46 | 0:07:54 | |
killing Mazen Fuqaha, went much
further. Hamas says they committed | 0:07:54 | 0:07:58 | |
murder. What could make a
Palestinian like Ashraf kill a | 0:07:58 | 0:08:02 | |
leading Hamas militant? And how much
the Israeli security forces have | 0:08:02 | 0:08:06 | |
found and recruited such a man. The
Fuqaha murder confession was not a | 0:08:06 | 0:08:14 | |
first-time Ashraf was noticed. He
was active in the violence which are | 0:08:14 | 0:08:18 | |
daft attempt on -- Hamas took power
here in 2007. -- which erupted after | 0:08:18 | 0:08:24 | |
Hamas to power. It turned out that
Ashraf was a member of the Hamas | 0:08:24 | 0:08:30 | |
security forces. He was heavily
involved in fighting against Hamas | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
opponents. In 2007, he started to
adopt more radical views. In 2007, | 0:08:34 | 0:08:42 | |
Ashraf kidnapped and murdered the
owner of a Christian bookshop in | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
Gaza. When his body was recovered,
it was disfigured by multiple stab | 0:08:44 | 0:08:52 | |
wounds and gunshot wounds. Ashraf
was a brutal killer. I wanted to | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
find somebody who could explain his
motivation. | 0:08:56 | 0:09:00 | |
Jihadist two are not welcomed hereby
Hamas authorities in Gaza, but I | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
have managed to contact one of them
who is very influential in these | 0:09:16 | 0:09:20 | |
circles. -- jihadists are not. I
hope he will be able to tell me more | 0:09:20 | 0:09:25 | |
about Ashraf. Did Ashraf share his
plans with other radicals here? | 0:09:25 | 0:09:38 | |
Jihadists had been arrested in Gaza,
and even killed. The Hamas | 0:09:38 | 0:09:42 | |
authorities had attacked mosques.
Was Ashraf motivated by revenge? I | 0:09:42 | 0:09:48 | |
am hoping my contact will give me
some answers. So, I met him. He | 0:09:48 | 0:09:53 | |
didn't want to be filmed. But he
told me very interesting stuff. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:59 | |
Ashraf approached the jihadists,
claiming he was a member of the | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
so-called Islamic State, at the
jihadists rejected him. As a loner, | 0:10:02 | 0:10:07 | |
Ashraf might have been easier to
control. But would the Israeli | 0:10:07 | 0:10:12 | |
security forces really recruit a
jihadist? A man dedicated to the | 0:10:12 | 0:10:18 | |
violent destruction of Israel? It
seemed an extraordinary risk. VC | 0:10:18 | 0:10:26 | |
funds in nearby Tel Aviv feels like
a different world from Gaza. -- the | 0:10:26 | 0:10:32 | |
seafront in nearby Tel Aviv. These
swimmers, joggers and holidaymakers | 0:10:32 | 0:10:37 | |
seem to take their safety and
protection for granted. But I have | 0:10:37 | 0:10:41 | |
come to meet a man whose job was to
guarantee this protection. For five | 0:10:41 | 0:10:47 | |
years, he was the director of
Shinbet, Israel's secretive internal | 0:10:47 | 0:10:52 | |
security services. He now heads the
foreign affairs and defence | 0:10:52 | 0:10:57 | |
committee of the Israeli parliament,
the Knesset. During those three | 0:10:57 | 0:11:06 | |
years, 2001, 2002 and 2003, we have
lost 900 people. Mainly civilians. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:13 | |
Mainly in suicide bombings. In many
cases we have succeeded in foiling | 0:11:13 | 0:11:21 | |
attacks. So the number of people
getting killed as 900, then I | 0:11:21 | 0:11:28 | |
wouldn't rule out that 9000 people,
if not more, are still alive, they | 0:11:28 | 0:11:34 | |
don't even know that they were about
to be killed. I asked him how easy | 0:11:34 | 0:11:41 | |
it was to recruit reliable
informers. When you are interested | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
in somebody you tried to -- try to
map, will tie his skills? What are | 0:11:46 | 0:11:55 | |
his weaknesses? What is his
usefulness? Otherwise you don't need | 0:11:55 | 0:12:03 | |
him, you can take another one. Would
you recruit a jihadist to kill a | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
Hamas operative? Everything is
possible in the fight against | 0:12:07 | 0:12:11 | |
terrorism. Everything. There is one
very strong principle in my eyes. I | 0:12:11 | 0:12:17 | |
always used to tell it to my people.
If you decide to become a terrorist, | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
you'd better no that's the Israeli
Shinbet, military, police, never | 0:12:21 | 0:12:29 | |
mind, it any Israeli, in one way or
another, you get to yourself in | 0:12:29 | 0:12:35 | |
prison, or your grave in the
cemetery. | 0:12:35 | 0:12:40 | |
In a Tel Aviv Park, I am eating a
reserve officer from Israeli | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
military intelligence. We are
protecting his identity, and he has | 0:12:49 | 0:12:54 | |
to be careful about what he says, in
order to avoid arrest. The role of | 0:12:54 | 0:13:04 | |
his unit was to recruit informers
among the Palestinian population, in | 0:13:04 | 0:13:08 | |
places like Gaza. And that meant
mass covert monitoring. Phones, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:14 | |
e-mail and social media.
TRANSLATION: People's visor like an | 0:13:14 | 0:13:22 | |
open book for us. We know so much
about people's personal lives. The | 0:13:22 | 0:13:26 | |
romantic affairs, their sexual
affairs, their health problems, | 0:13:26 | 0:13:29 | |
everything. So, if you want to gain
co-operation from people, it is | 0:13:29 | 0:13:37 | |
obviously best if we can blackmail
this person. In some basic causes of | 0:13:37 | 0:13:43 | |
Arabic in the unit, you learn
specific words, like different | 0:13:43 | 0:13:46 | |
synonyms for homosexual in Arabic.
So you will tell this guy, let's | 0:13:46 | 0:13:53 | |
say, for instance, you are luti, in
order to break him? Why? | 0:13:53 | 0:14:03 | |
TRANSLATION: That is a possible
course of action, yes. You put this | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
person in a lose lose situation.
Either way, his life is a great | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
risk. What it is not just sexual
orientation that makes people | 0:14:12 | 0:14:18 | |
targets. If someone's daughter has
cancer, for example, and he wants to | 0:14:18 | 0:14:22 | |
get treatment in one of the Israeli
hospitals, which is known to have | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
better treatment than Palestinian
hospitals, and if we know about it, | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
maybe we can stop him and tell him,
OK, you can have this, but only if | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
you co-operate. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:43 | |
This woman knows all about this
coercion. Today, she is with her | 0:14:52 | 0:14:57 | |
grandchildren. A year ago, their
mother needed urgent treatment for | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
cancer. The Israeli authorities
granted her permission to go to a | 0:15:00 | 0:15:08 | |
hospital in Jerusalem. It was six
o'clock and barely light went she | 0:15:08 | 0:15:14 | |
arrived here at the Haaretz Crossing
one morning in January 20 17. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:22 | |
The officers wanted information
about a man married to Khaloud's | 0:15:45 | 0:15:54 | |
cousin. She said he was an olive
tree farm. -- farmer. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:59 | |
She says her daughter was not able
to give any information about the | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
man. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:15 | |
But the Israeli authorities did not
allow Khaloud to board the bus. | 0:16:23 | 0:16:29 | |
Three weeks later, WACA three died.
-- Khaloud died. The Israeli | 0:16:32 | 0:16:41 | |
authorities told us that entry to
Israel is not conditional on | 0:16:41 | 0:16:46 | |
providing information or
cooperation, and they denied any | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
irregularities in their dealings
with Khaloud. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
Some Palestinians work with Israel
because they genuinely believe this | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
is the right way to protect their
own people. I have come to a tiny | 0:17:35 | 0:17:40 | |
village in the far south of Israel.
It is the home of a Bedouin | 0:17:40 | 0:17:47 | |
community of around 20 families that
were moved from Gaza, where they had | 0:17:47 | 0:17:52 | |
devoted their lives to working with
the Israeli state. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:55 | |
Hassan is a community leader here, a
role he inherited from his father, a | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
Bedouin shake from the Sinai Desert.
His father sided with the Israeli | 0:18:13 | 0:18:21 | |
state after the nation was defeated
in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and | 0:18:21 | 0:18:26 | |
Israel occupied his land. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
But is rarely counterterror
operations have also been far more | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
aggressive -- Israeli. Over the last
15 years, more than 300 Palestinian | 0:19:30 | 0:19:36 | |
militants have been targeted and
killed in Gaza. How often have | 0:19:36 | 0:19:41 | |
collaborators helped in these
killings? In a side street, in a | 0:19:41 | 0:19:50 | |
provincial Israeli town, I found
someone who might be able to tell | 0:19:50 | 0:19:53 | |
me. We have to protect his identity. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
I could now understand why this man
wanted his identity concealed. He | 0:20:36 | 0:20:41 | |
told me he had worked in Gaza for
the Israelis from the age of 17. But | 0:20:41 | 0:20:47 | |
that was before he had to get out. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:52 | |
This bird told me his testimony had
insured many Hamas cellmates | 0:21:25 | 0:21:33 | |
remained behind cars for decades,
but it has taken its toll. -- behind | 0:21:33 | 0:21:38 | |
bars. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
Normality, more than anything, is
what people in Gaza crave. But for | 0:22:18 | 0:22:21 | |
most here, it is out of reach.
Constant scrutiny, suspicion and | 0:22:21 | 0:22:33 | |
human need mean collaboration will
keep shaping and poisoning lives, | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
and some will continue to work for
the enemy. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:42 |