gaza

Israel’s Armed Quadcopters in Gaza Mark a Dangerous New Era in Drone Warfare

Israel is pioneering yet another deadly innovation in drone warfare. What happens in Gaza won’t stay there.

Disturbing sounds of crying infants and women were audible throughout the camp. When they went out to investigate, “Israeli quadcopters reportedly opened fire directly at them.

https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/israel-gaza-quadcopter-drone-warfare?r=7w1yj&utm_medium=ios

Lavender, Israel’s artificial intelligence system that decides who to bomb in Gaza

Israel has crossed another line in the automation of war. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have developed a program supported by artificial intelligence (AI) to select the victims of its bombings, a process that traditionally needs to be manually verified until a person can be confirmed to be a target. Called Lavender, this system identified 37,000 Palestinians as potential targets during the first weeks of the war, and between October 7 and November 24, it was used in at least 15,000 murders in the invasion of Gaza, according to a journalistic investigation by two Israeli media, +972 Magazine and Local Call, which was published in The Guardian.

(https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-04-17/lavender-israels-artificial-intelligence-system-that-decides-who-to-bomb-in-gaza.html)