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Ghadir Khader is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and activist renowned for her work documenting and challenging Israeli military surveillance and discriminatory practices against Palestinians, particularly those attributed to Israel's elite intelligence Unit 8200. As a staff attorney at Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, she has focused on legal advocacy through petitions to the Israeli Supreme Court, Freedom of Information requests, litigation, and authoring reports on privacy violations and digital surveillance. Her work accuses Unit 8200 of invasive monitoring of Palestinian communities in the West Bank and within Israel, seeking to expose secretive practices. Khader's activism extends to broader human rights issues including the rights of Arab citizens of Israel and Palestinians under occupation. She has contributed to international discussions on technology's role in conflicts, emphasizing ethical implications of surveillance tools, making her a key figure in networks advocating for accountability in Israeli security policies at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights.