1/ Our latest visual with Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance ( @az2palestine) builds on our previous work on Elbit Systems, Israel& #39;s largest weapons company. Find APSA& #39;s new report, “Facing Down Settler Colonialism: O’odham-Palestinian Struggles” here: https://bit.ly/2WQx29Z ">https://bit.ly/2WQx29Z&q...
2/ In 2014, Elbit Systems of America (a subsidiary of Israel’s Elbit Systems) was given a $145 million U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) contract to construct a network of 53 camera and radar-equipped Integrated Fixed Towers (IFTs) in Southern Arizona.
3/ Ten of Elbit’s IFTs are situated on Tohono O’odham reservation, placing this Indigenous community under round-the-clock surveillance with the same TORCH electronic system it first developed for Israel’s annexation wall.
4/ Surveillance towers also make these lands deadly for migrants. The Arizona OpenGIS Initiative for Deceased Migrants documents 3,270 people who have died trying to come to the U.S. via Arizona, a fraction of total estimated to be dead or missing in U.S.–Mexico borderlands.