The facts are recorded but not documented
A Palestinian village puts up surveillance cameras to protect against settler attacks
The control system was funded by a Palestinian businessman.
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A worker installs a video surveillance camera on a column to document settler attacks.
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Workers follow the installation of cameras in more than one location in the village of Kisan.
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Palestinians are installing a video camera surveillance system in a remote village in the West Bank to monitor Israeli settlers, who live nearby, who accuse them of launching repeated attacks on them.
The project's founders hope that TV surveillance cameras around the village of Kisan, which is in an area completely under Israeli military control, will help deter the attackers, who fear that the cameras will capture them.
Ali Farraj, one of the founders, said that the initiative "aims to reduce settlement attacks in all of our villages ... (against) our children and children who live here near the settlements."
Ahmed Issa, another founder of the project, said that the cameras have been placed in 10 locations, and they will be connected to an application on a mobile phone, which warns residents of any penetration, and records the facts that they say are happening but usually pass without documentation.
Farraj said that Kisan, and the surrounding villages, witnessed more than 450 incidents, including settlers, including attacks on people and damage to homes.
The United Nations documented some of these incidents, as well as some acts of violence in the West Bank, where about 430,000 settlers reside, among nearly three million Palestinians, on land that Israel occupied in the 1967 war.
The cameras project is funded by the "On the Land" initiative, founded by the American businessman of Palestinian origin, Bashar al-Masri.
Al-Masry initially financed six projects in remote areas, saying that they "aim to encourage people to take control of matters, with regard to stopping the insane expansion of settlements."
The Palestinian Authority has limited self-government powers in some areas, but many villages, such as Kisan, are located in areas under full Israeli military control, and they do not find any room for redress after incidents they say are related to settlers.
Farraj said, "The National Authority is unable to enter (the region) ... It is the duty of the civil society, or civil society, to cover the gap."
The cameras have been placed in 10 locations, and they will be connected to an application on a mobile phone, which warns residents of any penetration
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