“NSA shared Americans’ private communications with Israel”

American whistleblower Edward Snowden has accused the US National Security Agency of routinely passing private and unedited communications of US citizens to Israel.

The intercepts included private communications of Arabs, and Palestinian-Americans, whose relatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories could become targets based on the information. Snowden said the data was routinely transferred to the Israeli intelligence organization known as the Unit 82-hundred. He says the Israeli intelligence used the info to force the Palestinians into becoming collaborators. This has been carried out based on a deal between the NSA and the Israeli intelligence since 2009. US intelligence experts have described this to media as one of the biggest abuses ever.