Under an initiative promoted by an Israeli human rights group, Palestinians were armed with 100 cameras to film real-life interactions and confrontations with Israeli settlers and troops.
Reporter Peter Beaumont speaks to Palestinians who participated in this project, which is called “Shooting Back.”
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The simple presence of video cameras has been praised by some analysts as contributing to avoidance of some potentially violent situations -- and the cameras documented some shocking abuses.
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