Document #1086293
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
According to a representative of the
Palestine Human Rights Information Centre in Jerusalem, generally
the Israeli security forces will try to recruit Palestinian
collaborators when a Palestinian is coming back to the Occupied
Territories or Israel (11 March 1992). The Palestinian may have to
meet with Israeli authorities and ask to collaborate in order to be
allowed to stay (Ibid.). Also, Palestinians searching for a
job or for a job promotion can be pressured to become collaborators
(Ibid.).
According to the Chairperson of the Israeli
League for Human and Civil Rights in Jerusalem, there are two main
methods used by the Israeli security forces (11 March 1992). The
first is to promise release to Palestinians accused of criminal
acts if they accept to collaborate (Ibid.). The second
method is to use the context of family reunion (Ibid.). In
order to be reunited will their family in the Occupied Territories,
Palestinians need a residence permits (Ibid.). Since the
permits are very difficult to obtain, Palestinians are pressured
into collaborating by Israeli security forces or else face family
separation (Ibid.). A professor of Middle Eastern Studies at
the University of McGill in Montréal reported that there is
a wide variety of methods used by the Israeli security forces in
the Occupied Territories to recruit collaborators, including
bribery, blackmail, pardon for criminal offenses, physical
intimidation of the person or family members, low level of
detention and harassment (11 March 1992). The methods used can vary
according to what the Palestinian needs from the Israeli
authorities, residence permits, for examples (Ibid.).
For further information please refer to the
attached documents.
Israeli League for Human and Civil
Rights, Jerusalem. 11 March 1992. Telephone Interview with
Representative.
Palestine Human Rights Information
Centre, Jerusalem. 11 March 1992. Telephone Interview with
Representative.
University of McGill, Middle Eastern
Studies, Montréal. 11 March 1992. Telephone Interview with
Professor.
The Guardian. 28 June 1989.
Black, Ian. "Guardian of Intifada Mete Out Bloody Justice to
Suspected Collaborators."
The New York Times. 24 September
1989. Chartrand, Sabra. "Israelis Training Groups of Arabs to Halt
Uprising."
Al-Haq. A Nation Under Siege.
1989.