DN Note: We are posting this article from +972 magazine & Local Call, knowing very well that it is a mainstream media article, but feel the technology it is describing being used by the IDF as important to understand, alongside their use of swarm drone technology to kill terror supects in Gaza and also an AI gun powered by facial recognition used to kill an Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November 2020, all of this even before the recent conflict. Israel’s use of this technology is a further advance of artificial intelligence which now is starting to permeate societies worldwide, whether it is to identify ‘terrorist’ supects through facial recognition software enhanced camera systems, infiltrating health care systems or even analyzing whether you are allowed to receive state welfare ot not. Warfare has always been the accelerator of technological and scientific adavances that are being pushed by all states worldwide, be it Russia, USA, China, UK and Iran, the 4th Industrial Revolution will not be any different. It is time to realise that there is a monumental shift arriving already now, that identifying technology and science as a progressive, even benevolent forces that will not harm, imprison or destroy us is dellusional. There is no other better time than the present to fight back against the technological and scientific prison, to break out and destroy it before it is too late.
As an extra note we would like to point out that there has been no solid evidence produced of the sexual violence and rape or that the deaths of civilians were commited by the militants that crossed from Gaza. Much of this so called evidence has been shown to be Israeli state propaganda, that the sources such as the one that claimed babies were burned to death have quickly dissapeared from the internet as quickly as they appeared. Plenty of information has been coming to light that the IDF panicked in the initial stages of the 7th October attacks and in a frenzied attmept to contain it, ended up killing the civilians themselves, either in the crossfire or indiscriminately bombing areas. This is the same IDF that has massacred countless civilians in bombing campaigns, targetted raids in peoples homes, incarcerates thousands upon thousands, drops chemical weapons upon urban populations, even has covered up its own involvement in massacres in Lebanon and even lied to cover up the Lod Airport attack, another example of zealous security forces doing their honourable job. Apparently we are supposed to believe the lie generator that is the Israeli propoganda machine most likely already programmed by AI?
The Israeli army’s expanded authorisation for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals. These factors, as described by current and former Israeli intelligence members, have probably played a role in producing what has been one of the deadliest military campaigns against Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948.
The investigation by +972 and Local Call is based on conversations with seven current and former members of Israel’s intelligence community — including military intelligence and air force personnel who were involved in Israeli operations in the besieged Strip — in addition to Palestinian testimonies, data, and documentation from the Gaza Strip, and official statements by the IDF Spokesperson and other Israeli state institutions.
Compared to previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the current war — which Israel has named “Operation Iron Swords,” and which began in the wake of the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on 7 Oct — has seen the army significantly expand its bombing of targets that are not distinctly military in nature. These include private residences as well as public buildings, infrastructure and high-rise blocks, which sources say the army defines as “power targets” (matarot otzem).
The bombing of power targets, according to intelligence sources who had first-hand experience with its application in Gaza in the past, is mainly intended to harm Palestinian civil society: to “create a shock” that, among other things, will reverberate powerfully and “lead civilians to put pressure on Hamas,” as one source put it.
Several of the sources, who spoke to +972 and Local Call on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that the Israeli army has files on the vast majority of potential targets in Gaza — including homes — which stipulate the number of civilians who are likely to be killed in an attack on a particular target. This number is calculated and known in advance to the army’s intelligence units, who also know shortly before carrying out an attack roughly how many civilians are certain to be killed.
In one case discussed by the sources, the Israeli military command knowingly approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to assassinate a single top Hamas military commander. “The numbers increased from dozens of civilian deaths [permitted] as collateral damage as part of an attack on a senior official in previous operations to hundreds of civilian deaths as collateral damage,” said one source. Continue reading “‘A Mass Assassination Factory’: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza” →
