At this year’s Palestine Digital Activism Forum, hosted by the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, also known as 7amleh, local and international civil society organizations met to discuss the digital rights challenges faced by Palestinians and activists working on the Palestinian cause.
Click to expand Image Two guns sit atop a guard tower along with surveillance cameras pointed at the Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank, October 6, 2022. 2022 Mahmoud Ilean/AP Images In late May, I addressed a panel on the militarization of digital spaces - specifically on how Israeli authorities use surveillance technologies to deepen systemic discrimination against Palestinians. I warned that the use of autonomy in weapons systems was a dangerous part of this trend and highlighted the urgent need for an international legal response. This panel was part of this year's Palestine Digital Activism Forum, hosted by the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, also known as 7amleh. More than 1,500 participants from local and international civil society organizations met to discuss the digital rights challenges faced by Palestinians and activists working on the Palestinian cause. Amnesty International's new report, "Automated Apartheid," details the extensive us