PALESTINE
Tue 02 Jul 2024 8:53 am - Jerusalem Time
Israeli artificial intelligence and its deadly role in the killings and destruction in Gaza
The following is a summary of an Israeli investigation translated by Professor Alaa Abu Zeina. The translated investigation was published in the Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad on three full pages on (16-17-18/4/2024). I present a summary of it and comment on it due to its extreme importance.
It appears from the translated investigation that the Israeli army has developed a number of military artificial intelligence programs specifically to annihilate the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and to destroy the Strip, people, trees, and stones.
The most important of these programs are three: one of them is for extermination, and is called Lavender, the second is for destroying the place and is called The Gospe, and the third is for tracking down resistance leaders and soldiers in order to bomb and eliminate them, and it is called Where's Daddy.
The mission of the Lavender Program is to identify all Palestinians suspected of having ties to both Hamas and Jihad, and arrange them on a list of 100 levels, that is, according to their importance in the pyramid of resistance, as targets for bombing and killing. In the field, the army relied on this list of Palestinian human targets to launch air strikes on each of them to bomb and kill him, and in most cases his family and neighbors when necessary, without verifying its accuracy target by target, even though it was proven to the army that the program was wrong by ten percent in identifying targets. Except for checking, for twenty seconds, whether the target is male or female. However, the army ignored this percentage and killed everyone, even members of the police, civil defense, Ministry of Interior employees, doctors, nurses, paramedics, male and female teachers, students, ambulance drivers, relatives of activists, neighbors, and people whose names coincided with the names of targets. The result was and continues to be the killing and wounding of thousands and thousands of Palestinians, including women, children, the sick and individuals, even though they are not participating in the fighting by destroying their homes on top of their families, under the pretext that Hamas and Jihad place their members and military assets in the heart of civilian housing, use them as human shields and manage the fighting. From inside buildings, schools, hospitals, ambulances, United Nations facilities (the International Relief Agency in particular), and a complex tunnel system, which, according to the Israeli argument, leads to the killing of many civilians (perhaps this is why Biden - the American president - denies the genocide that Israel is carrying out of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip). Most of the bombing and killing took place at night, at five o'clock in the morning, and the targets were with their families while the people were sleeping, with Western planes, ammunition, and bombs, especially American ones.
As for the mission of the Al-Injil artificial intelligence program, it was to mark the homes and buildings targeted for destruction on the heads of their residents, in which this program claims that militants are operating or hiding.
The Israeli army preferred and still prefers to kill the lower ranks of the two movements with stupid bombs or unguided missiles because they are cheaper and less expensive than the smart bombs and guided missiles that are very expensive and more deadly and destructive, and are designed to kill the leaders of the two movements and important relevant figures, even if that leads to the killing of entire families. Accidentally destroying buildings and structures. The Israeli army used to justify this by saying that the family might have members organized in one of the two movements. As you can see, it is eliminating all morals and international and humanitarian laws from the picture. The Israeli army considers the killing of entire families and civilians of both sexes and of different ages resulting from the killing of targeted individuals merely inevitable collateral damage, even if the killing was done by mistake, that is, because the target was not present at that moment in time. Bombing at home/in the family or in the place.
In an unprecedented American and international move, Lavender, and consequently the Israeli army, decided that it was possible to kill 15-20 civilians for killing a small Hamas or Jihad activist, a hundred civilians for killing an individual more important than them, and three hundred civilians or more for killing a very important leader. The Israeli army authorized the killing of up to three hundred civilians when necessary to kill Ayman Nofal, commander of the Gaza Central Brigade, but it failed to do so as a result of an inaccurate determination of its location. However, it killed dozens, wounded hundreds, and destroyed many buildings.
An Israeli officer who participated in the journalistic investigation stated that the machine/artificial intelligence program works quietly, and this makes things easier for the army. Another officer included in the press investigation says: “In war, there is no time to scrutinize the file of each target, and therefore you are willing to tolerate a margin of error resulting from the use of artificial intelligence, as well as risk collateral damage such as killing civilians, or risk launching an attack on the wrong basis, and coexist.” However, in retaliation for the Al-Aqsa flood.” Thus, Israel - the government and people - abandoned all human rights and the principles of international law and humanitarian law when it considered all Hamas and Jihad activists and those close to them as human targets that must be eliminated unconditionally. Thus arose the so-called Israeli Holy Grail, that is, automatic, that is, insane killing resulting from the large number of targets identified by Lavender that must be eliminated with lightning speed, in addition to the immediate targets identified by the Israeli military in the field. An officer, whose name was not mentioned during the investigation, said: At five in the morning, the army was bombing all the homes identified by the program. We eliminated thousands of people in their homes without checking their files. We used to describe these targets as “garbage targets” or “large-scale hunting.” By relying on the machine for killing and extermination, Israel loses, politically and militarily, all human morals, feelings, and principles. Since the beginning of the fighting, the number of Palestinian dead and wounded was determined and known in advance with each air or artillery bombardment to the relevant authorities.
As for the Ayna Baba program, its goal is to track targeted individuals and deny bombings when they enter their homes when they are captured, which explains the killing of entire families.
The bottom line is that we - the Arabs - were completely absent from what Israel was developing militarily and technologically to annihilate the Palestinian people and the people of any Arab country that actually challenges Israel. Israel was preparing to kill us like no one had ever prepared before.
But where did Lavender get all this huge information about every Palestinian in Gaza, inside and outside? I got it from their smart phones, from spies, from security experiments, from hidden and apparent cameras hanging in every corner, from American and foreign or allied and friendly intelligence, and from satellites.
Despite all this, the Palestinian resistance was able to endure for a long time in the face of this advanced aggressive machine, in a way that history has never witnessed.
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Israeli artificial intelligence and its deadly role in the killings and destruction in Gaza