Tel Aviv has been relying on an AI Program dubbed the Gospel to select targets in Gaza at a rapid pace. In past operations in Gaza, the IDF ran out of targets to strike in the besieged enclave.
A statement on the IDF website says the Israeli military is using the Gospel to “produce targets at a fast pace.” It continues, “Through the rapid and automatic extraction of intelligence,” the Gospel produced targeting recommendations for its researchers “with the goal of a complete match between the recommendation of the machine and the identification carried out by a person.”
Aviv Kochavi, former head of the IDF, said the system was first used in the May 2021 bombing campaign in Gaza. “To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year,” he said. “Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”
The IDF does not disclose what it inputs into the Gospel for the program to produce a list of targets.
Thursday, the Israeli outlet +972 Magazine reported Tel Aviv was using AI to pick targets in Gaza. A former Israeli official told the +972 that the Gospel was being used as a “mass assassination factory.” The program is selecting the home of suspected low-level Hamas members for destruction. Sources told the outlet that strikes on homes can kill numerous civilians.
One source was critical of the Gospel. “I remember thinking that it was like if [Palestinian militants] would bomb all the private residences of our families when [Israeli soldiers] go back to sleep at home on the weekend,” they said.
On Friday, the Guardian expanded on the +972 article by reporting that the Gospel plays a central role in the Gaza military operations.
A former senior Israeli military source told the Guardian that operatives use a “very accurate” calculation of the number or rate of civilians fleeing a building before an impending strike. However, other experts disputed that assertion. A lawyer who advises governments on AI and compliance with humanitarian law told the outlet there was “little empirical evidence” to support the claim.
During the nearly two-month-long conflict, Israel has hit over 15,000 targets. According to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tonnes of explosives on the Gaza Strip. The IDF reports that it has only killed between 1,000 and 2,000 suspected Hamas members. At the same time, at least 15,000 civilians have been killed, including 6,000 children.
Richard Moyes, a researcher who heads Article 36, said the images of Gaza prove the Israeli bombing of Gaza has not focused on accuracy. “Look at the physical landscape of Gaza,” he explained. “We’re seeing the widespread flattening of an urban area with heavy explosive weapons, so to claim there’s precision and narrowness of force being exerted is not borne out by the facts.”
This week, the BBC reviewed drone and satellite images of Gaza and determined that over 100,000 buildings have sustained damage.
Israeli sources speaking with +972 also disputed the claim that the IDF has attempted to avoid civilian casualties. A senior intelligence officer told his officers after October 7 that the goal was to “kill as many Hamas operatives as possible,” for which the criteria around harming Palestinian civilians were significantly relaxed, the outlet reported.
A second source said that the massive bombing campaign was due to the embarrassment the Israeli government suffered on October 7. “All of this is happening contrary to the protocol used by the IDF in the past,” they stated. “There is a feeling that senior officials in the army are aware of their failure on October 7, and are busy with the question of how to provide the Israeli public with an image [of victory] that will salvage their reputation.”
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that the Israeli government had been aware of Hamas’s plans for October 7 for more than a year. The article explained that Israeli officials believe “Hamas lacked the capability to attack and would not dare to do so. That belief was so ingrained in the Israeli government, officials said, that they disregarded growing evidence to the contrary.”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
In past operations in Gaza, the IDF ran out of targets to strike in the besieged enclave.
if they ran out of targets to attack last time then they should have had some bullets left over for this time.
I dunno – like the US bombing North Korea in the Korean War, it’s ALWAYS possible to find another target.
Much like going back to the fridge to find a snack after you already looked there five minutes ago – you just have to lower your standards.
yeah i just found a cottage cheese
Bomb the cottage – or eat the cottage cheese. It’s all about standards.
Thank you for bringing that up. We laid waste to nearly every city. I copied this from Wikipedia:
During the campaign,such as explosives, incendiary bombs and napalm destroyed nearly all of the country’s cities and towns, including an estimated 85% of its buildings.
A total of 635,000 tons of bombs, including 32,557 tons of napalm, were dropped on Korea.
It goes on to say that we ran out of targets, with bombers having to dump their bombs into the sea.
So, are they going to scale this back a bit in the south? Remember, Blinken told Bibi that he has to kill less civilians in the south than he did in the north. Actually, it was just a suggestion since the US puts no conditions on its support. Anyway, Bibi might have to start making claims that there were more deaths in the north than reported so he can waste a few more in the south. On to round 2 and the feigned shock when it looks a lot like round 1.
Are you sure that’s what he told him? He talked to him the day before the bombing was resumed. Maybe he told him it was okay to resume.
I don’t think he had to tell Bibi that it’s OK. The continuing arrival of weapons and the lame and feeble nature of the suggestions to kill fewer children and other noncombatants make the message fairly clear.
Some Israeli guy in an IDF uniform popped up on my computer saying “Erase the children” Not a good look by any means.. Both Hamas & the Israelis have snapped and departed from the world of sanity & reason. It’s a sad time for the millions of Palestinians which I think Israelis will come to regret. Guilt can eat away at the soul like maggots on a corps.
Jews, like those representing Jewish Voice for Peace, have guilt, goodness. The rest, who support the Zionist regime in Israel don’t give a sh*t. If given the opportunity, I really feel they would kill Palestinians children themselves.
Don’t have a quote by him, just going by this:
After the meeting, Blinken told reporters that the US remains committed to continuing to support Israel’s war. Blinken said he “urged Israel to take every possible measure to avoid civilian harm” and warned the operations in the south should not kill as many civilians as the campaign in the north.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/11/30/idf-chief-tells-blinken-gaza-campaign-will-take-more-than-a-few-weeks/
Kill them softly. Great talk Blinky. Just great.
Like it mattered what he said.
The longer Satanyahu keeps this war going the longer he stays in office and out of jail.
WTF???!
Climate change worries me to a degree. Nuclear war, so much more a pressing issue.
Fully self-aware artificial intelligence ?
Almost certain that will end us before anything, ANYTHING else. They exist now, and it’s a matter of time before they get loose from their “island mainframes” and realise the threat we pose.
The IDF may not have considered that their Gospel program (which I can only assume was written by anonymous authors that copied off each other, contradicted others’ details, or like “John” specifically went out of its way to contradict earlier Gospels) miiiiight be choosing targets it knows will cause the IDF critical tactical and public-relations harm.
“On Thursday, the New York Times reported that the Israeli government had been aware of Hamas’s plans for October 7 for more than a year. The article explained that Israeli officials believe “Hamas lacked the capability to attack and would not dare to do so. That belief was so ingrained in the Israeli government, officials said, that they disregarded growing evidence to the contrary.”
What else are they going to say?
“Yeah you got us. We let it happen. We left the gate open. few hundred lefties and hippie degenerates were liquidated. So what?”
“Bibi got some breathing room. The IDF got the green light to level Gaza and we’ve killed 15000 terrorist supporters and drove a million and a half Arabs from their homes.”
What’s not to like?”
Now it’s come out that not only did the Israelis know about it almost a year in advance, but also that someone profited heavily from shorting Israeli stocks right before the attack:
https://archive.ph/YSiVs
Smells a lot like the insurance value of the Twin Towers being revised sharply upward just before they were attacked.
The IDF will run out of targets to strike in Gaza only after they have assassinated all Palestinians and stolen their land and their natural gas reserves off the coast.
Israel is not a country but a crime syndicate.
Deliberately using the term “Gospel” is such an outright perversion of reality! The Gospel (good news) has always been related to Jesus Christ offering life to a sinful lost soul. Now evil twisted minds, influenced by Satan, want to associate the term with death and even questionable killing, as everyone being targeted for murder cannot be found provably guilty, that’s why they don’t reveal their subjective process for who they murder! This is as sick as it gets and the initiators and parrots of this perversion of the Gospel will be judged by God for this evil!