’Lavender’ is the name of an artificial intelligence-based program developed by the Israeli army which has has played a central role in the unprecedented bombing of Palestinians.

It is ”designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets.”

Thousands of Palestinians not involved in the fighting ”were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions.”

”During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based.”

”Another source said that they had personally authorized the bombing of ’hundreds’ of private homes of alleged junior operatives marked by Lavender, with many of these attacks killing civilians and entire families as ’collateral damage.’”

”Additional automated systems, including one called ’Where’s Daddy?’ also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.”

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/