Ramallah, October 5 (RHC)-- A group of young Palestinian men have discovered a camouflaged Israeli transmission and photographic spying device in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, which was apparently monitoring the movements of local residents and protesters.

According to social media activists, the device was found in the village of Kobar, and the young Palestinians burned the device after finding out that it was equipped with a sensor to detect movement and a camera that recorded everything and then broadcast it to occupied territories.

Eyewitnesses said a special force of the Israeli military had professionally camouflaged the device inside a concrete block to prevent its discovery by the local youth.  A video posted on social media networks shows a group of young Palestinian men dismantling the device, which includes various parts like a camera, a transmitter and a battery. 
 
Israeli military forces later raided Kobar, and arrested three young men from the village.  They then released two of them, believed to be brothers, but kept the third youth, identified as Nassim Barghouthi, in detention.

Kobar, besieged by a number of Israeli settlements, has been the scene of constant clashes between Israeli forces and local residents after a number of purported armed attacks against settlers.

Back on June 7, 2016, the Lebanese army dismantled a similar Israeli device in the Chouf district of the country’s southern province of Mount Lebanon.

The government troops found the device at the time inside a fake rock cobbled together from plastic in an area between Barouk and Ain Zhalta villages.  Three lock boxes were found next to the fake rock, with wires hanging out of them.  The boxes were apparently used to operate the device, which was connected to an audio power amplifier.