‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza - +927 Magazine 11/30/2023 (CW: The usual text, Pictures, but also AI is involved)

sloth [none/use name]@hexbear.net · edit-2 7 months ago

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza - +927 Magazine 11/30/2023 (CW: The usual text, Pictures, but also AI is involved)

sloth [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 7 months ago

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.

sloth [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 7 months ago

“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

sloth [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 7 months ago

According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”

sloth [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 7 months ago

According to the sources, the increasing use of AI-based systems like Habsora allows the army to carry out strikes on residential homes where a single Hamas member lives on a massive scale, even those who are junior Hamas operatives. Yet testimonies of Palestinians in Gaza suggest that since October 7, the army has also attacked many private residences where there was no known or apparent member of Hamas or any other militant group residing. Such strikes, sources confirmed to +972 and Local Call, can knowingly kill entire families in the process.