The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East

Using video stills from over 5,000 hours of footage from the private archive of B'Tselem as core material, this book explores the politics of videographic practice in Israel/Palestine. The book analyses citizen surveillance: how Palestinians originally filmed to "shoot back? at Israelis, and also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras, including personal cell phone cameras, thus creating a simultaneous, echoing counter surveillance. Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice, the Weaponized Camera asks how what is seen, but also who is seeing, affects how conflicts are visually recorded and thus offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/Palestine conflict.