ISRAEL INVESTS IN HIGH-TECH UPGRADES AT WEST BANK CROSSINGS
Aug 02, 2019
3 minutes
Image: Sebastian Scheiner
It’s just after 6 a.m. and a Palestinian man’s face is momentarily bathed in crimson light, not by the sun rising over the mountains of Jordan, but by a facial recognition scanner at an Israeli checkpoint near Jerusalem.
The Israeli military has installed the face scanners as part a multimillion dollar upgrade of the Qalandia crossing that now allows Palestinians from the West Bank with work permits to zip through with relative ease.
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