by Tony Wikrent
Gaza / Palestine / Israel
[X-Twitter, via Naked Capitalism 12-01-2023]
WOW, this might be THE most important piece of journalism on the war on Gaza since it began, by Israeli newspaper @972mag :https://t.co/ORhMha76B5
Essentially they confirm, with unimpeachable sourcing, that the killing of civilians was all calculated and intentional.
Their…
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) November 30, 2023
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
[+972, via X-Teitter. above]
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza….
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….
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.
“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.”
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.”
Michel Chossudovsky [via Naked Capitalism 12-01-2023]
Out of Gaza’s 2.3 million people,
1.73 million are now displaced…
20,030 civilians killed…
8,176 children have been killed…
4,112 women have been killed…
7,000 people remain unaccounted for, including more than 4,700 children…
36,350 civilians have been injured….
…It’s genocide. The underlying modalities are confirmed in an official “secret” memorandum of Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence. Washington is fully supportive of this military-intelligence operation.
Both US and British Operation Forces are collaborating with the I.D.F. (See this)
The 10 page document recommends “the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula”, namely to a refugee camp in Egyptian territory. There are indications of Israel-Egypt negotiations as well as routine consultations with U.S. intelligence….
Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
[New York Times, 2023 Nov 30]
The Hamas Attack and Israel’s War in Gaza
[Council for Global Cooperation, via Naked Capitalism 11-28-2023]. Important.