The Israel Defense Forces decided to end its nighttime “home mapping” practice in the West Bank. Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai, the chief of Central Command, ordered his forces to halt their nighttime raids on Palestinian homes to gather intelligence, after the military claimed it has developed “more advanced operative and technological tools” for this purpose. But the endless intelligence the defense agencies collect on all the Palestinian residents of the territories was not the only goal of those invasions. They were also a means to demonstrate the army’s control and power over the occupied civilia