Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to sign an order extending the secrecy of the information stored in the security services’ archives from 70 to 90 years including the Deir Yassin massacre carried out by Zionist gangs in the Nakba.
This came at the request of security agencies and other bodies to extend the confidentiality of this information to prevent the publication of part of the information during the current year.
The security agencies claim that the extension of confidentiality comes with the aim of “preventing the detection of sources of intelligence information methods of work used by the devices today in addition to information originating from foreign sources.”
Netanyahu had signed a similar order in 2010 extending the confidentiality of archives from 50 to 70 years.
According to Haaretz the legal adviser to the so-called “State Archive” Naomi Aldubi distributed to the ministries on Wednesday a draft of instructions that include the materials contained in the Shin Bet and Mossad in addition to the archives of the Atomic Energy Commission and nuclear research centers And the Biological Institute.
It will also prevent the deployment of items of the Army Intelligence Division information related to the collection of intelligence classified as “secret” or higher and items related to certain units in the army and the Ministry of Security.
As a result the decision not to disclose these materials will make it difficult for historians researchers and journalists to impose restrictions on the public at large including items related to the Deir Yassin massacre in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948.
