GAZA (Gernika berria, Palestina) versus Israel (gehi AEB + NATO, Pentagonoa eta EB) (26)
Gogoratzekoa
This is a 1947 map issued by National Geographic.
There was no such thing called “Israel”.
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Europe? No, Thanks!
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World Children’s Day
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Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,M.Sc.,DPT.@drhossamsamy65
مازالت القوات الاسرائيلية تختطف الاطفال الفلسطينيين! Israel captures children and tortures them
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1729963892149776542
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This single video destroyed the entire Zionist propaganda machine.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730099944344703094
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Hamas release a video of today’s hostage handover. The hostages appear very friendly to Hamas. Handshaking, smiling, hugging, waving with one even blowing a kiss to a member of Hamas.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730090348238536990
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BREAKING:
Putin:
The whole world laughs at the Germans
Germany “swallows” the results of its “allies” due to the absence of sovereignty and insufficient expertise of some government representatives, who are laughed at all over the world, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“They are famous, the whole world laughs at them.” “I will not mention their names now, but the whole world is really laughing,” Putin emphasized.
My Opinion:
He is 100% right. The US blew up their Nord Stream gas pipeline, forcing them to buy gas 4 to 8 times more expensive.
With the sanctions that the US ordered and Germany introduced, great inflation was initiated. The economy was in recession for several quarters of this year.
Due to high energy prices, Germany started to lose its competitiveness in several sectors of the world market in relation to China, which offers cheaper products.
Germany has totally failed as a leader in the EU and the world has seen that it is just an ordinary vassal of the globalists in the US.
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Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti@MustafaBarghou1
What threat to the state of Israel did the 8 year old Palestinian child Adam Alghoul represent? What hate made the Israeli sniper shoot him to death? Adam is the last of 61 Palestinian child killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank this year .
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Corpses near the Al-Shifa hospital found “missing cochleas and corneas as well as other vital organs like livers, kidneys, and hearts.”
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Maria@real1maria
aza. 27
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We used to take organs from the bodies of Palestinians, and then the immigrants and foreign workers.”
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Our skin bank is the biggest in the world. twitter.com/real1maria/sta…
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“For which sin were they killed” Iraqi children drew a map of Palestine reading “for which sin were they killed” in support of Palestinian children in Gaza who fell victim to Israeli brutalities.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730028874501947756
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Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730132604848836673
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Israel claims that the baby crib presented to Elon Musk during his visit to the kibbutzim in the Gaza Envelope was “caught in the middle of a Hamas attack with a child inside.”
After analyzing the footage, the Turkish Communications Center for Combating Disinformation determined not only that the crib showed no signs of damage, but also that the shell casings allegedly fired by Qassam fighters were not in the crib when the governor of New Jersey visited on 12 November.
Furthermore, the shell casings are 7.62×51 ammunition from the MG3, a Merkava machine gun. This aligns with previous recent reports that show that Israeli forces fired on the kibbutzim themselves on 7 October, leading to the wide scale devastation caused in the settlements.
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We encountered Senator Rubio today. He wants Israel to keep bombing Gaza until “they destroy every element of Hamas.” He doesn’t get it: Bombing creates MORE resistance. There will never be peace in Israel until there is justice for Palestinians. I respond with a video…
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730020678126981293
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BREAKING: Henry Kissinger, who is responsible for death and destruction from Chile to Argentina, Palestine to Syria, Iraq to Iran to Afghanistan, Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Cambodia, Bangladesh to South Africa, Angola to Jamaica to East Timor, & many other countries, has died.
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#Kissinger is yet another war criminal who dies without accountability. The same will happen with all our Western politicians. Only the enemies of the #West get indicted in the #ICC.
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
It was Bill #Clinton who destroyed the dream of a viable security architecture based on the #UN Charter. The eastern expansion of #NATO was a declaration of war on the world, an attempt to replace the UN by NATO.
Now we see the results.
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
#Chomsky wrote “There’s a War Crimes Act passed by Congress in 1996 which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.” Would this have applied to Kissinger?
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Palestine Highlights@PalHighlight
Cute newborn girl miraculously survives an Israeli airstrike that killed her parents on the 37th day of the regime’s aggression against the Gaza Strip.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730059938381074472
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When Hamas and Islamic Jihad release prisoners, it’s clear that friendships have emerged between captives and captors.
When Palestinian hostages are released, they speak of hunger, torture, and murder at the hands of their barbaric Israeli jailers.
So, who are the terrorist?
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730100839534952954
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Released Israeli hostages HUGGING Hamas
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730103256557211855
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Netanyahu’s crying and throwing up rn.
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Censored Men@CensoredMen
aza. 30
Hamas release a video of today’s hostage handover. The hostages appear very friendly to Hamas. Handshaking, smiling, hugging, waving with one even blowing a kiss to a member of Hamas.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730090348238536990
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Party for Socialism and Liberation@pslnational
Harvard University students walk out of class to #ShutItDown4Palestine
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This innocent boy, Yousef Ayyash, lost his father, mother, grandfather and grandmother in an Israeli airstrike that levelled their home to the ground in #Gaza.
He was pulled out from under the rubble 12 hours later, with injuries to his two legs.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730109688556011598
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School children place 450 coffins outside Downing Street in London to commemorate 6,150 Palestinian children killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730289856817885198
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BREAKING: Another slap in the face for Germany President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier doesn’t look happy as he waits around for the non-existent welcome delegation in Doha, Qatar.
It seems that the Qataris wanted to talk to the main boss from the US, not some of their vassals.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730186721675944015
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اشاوس الجيش ألذى لا يقهر يحاولون القبض على طفل فلسطينى عمره عامان!!!
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1729965804412617014
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Scott Ritter & Diane Sare talk about Van Cliburn
Scott Ritter & Diane Sare talk about Van Cliburn
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/zHnzv1wbKuA
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Scott Ritter “Our Government Is LYING!” (Exclusive Interview)
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Bideoa: https://youtu.be/y7N4BOnSJnY
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The second the ceasefire ended Israel did what they do best and went back to bombing children
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730495003737412087
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Scott Ritter Joins Nick & CJ | Hamas Winning Battle for Gaza | Israel…
Scott Ritter Joins Nick & CJ | Hamas Winning Battle for Gaza | Israel Will Cease to Exist | Regional War with Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen | Hostage Deal Indicat…
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/J7kC5Qh7cmY
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Hitler’s air force flattened the Spanish town of Guernica. But what’s happening in Gaza is much more horrific, with 2000lb bombs dropped on schools and hospitals Follow
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmydMqgkGy
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An ISRAELI SNIPER SHOT DEAD a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank, two days ago
. ISRAEL violated the ceasefire!
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730659019851755746
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BREAKING: BABIES CONTINUE TO BE TARGETED BY THE ISRAELI FORCES
Terrorism
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730639582457110768
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We will never forget. We will NEVER stop sharing
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Israel is bombing Khan Yunis, in south Gaza, now. Israel is telling civilians to leave south Gaza. They have nowhere to go. Clear that Israel wants to push the Palestinians out of Gaza and into the Sinai desert through a terror campaign. This is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730601892869292268
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The Guardian confirms @972mag investigation that the IDF uses AI to generate bombing targets in Gaza at an unprecedented rate, powering a “mass assassination factory” in which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality”.
https://theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets
It’s probably the most dystopian revelation of the war so far. All these women and children killed are literally selected as targets by machine.
‘To claim there’s precision and narrowness of force being exerted is not borne out by the facts,’ said one researcher. Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA
‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza
https://theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets
Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territory
Harry Davies, Bethan McKernan and Dan Sabbagh in JerusalemFri 1 Dec 2023
- Israel’s military has made no secret of the intensity of its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. In the early days of the offensive, the head of its air force spoke of relentless, “around the clock” airstrikes. His forces, he said, were only striking military targets, but he added: “We are not being surgical.”
There has, however, been relatively little attention paid to the methods used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to select targets in Gaza, and to the role artificial intelligence has played in their bombing campaign.
As Israel resumes its offensive after a seven-day ceasefire, there are mounting concerns about the IDF’s targeting approach in a war against Hamas that, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, has so far killed more than 15,000 people in the territory.
The IDF has long burnished its reputation for technical prowess and has previously made bold but unverifiable claims about harnessing new technology. After the 11-day war in Gaza in May 2021, officials said Israel had fought its “first AI war” using machine learning and advanced computing.
The latest Israel-Hamas war has provided an unprecedented opportunity for the IDF to use such tools in a much wider theatre of operations and, in particular, to deploy an AI target-creation platform called “the Gospel”, which has significantly accelerated a lethal production line of targets that officials have compared to a “factory”.
The Guardian can reveal new details about the Gospel and its central role in Israel’s war in Gaza, using interviews with intelligence sources and little-noticed statements made by the IDF and retired officials.
This article also draws on testimonies published by the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, which have interviewed several current and former sources in Israel’s intelligence community who have knowledge of the Gospel platform.
Their comments offer a glimpse inside a secretive, AI-facilitated military intelligence unit that is playing a significant role in Israel’s response to the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on 7 October.
The slowly emerging picture of how Israel’s military is harnessing AI comes against a backdrop of growing concerns about the risks posed to civilians as advanced militaries around the world expand the use of complex and opaque automated systems on the battlefield.
“Other states are going to be watching and learning,” said a former White House security official familiar with the US military’s use of autonomous systems.
The Israel-Hamas war, they said, would be an “important moment if the IDF is using AI in a significant way to make targeting choices with life-and-death consequences”.
- Israeli soldiers during ground operations in the Gaza Strip. Photograph: IDF
From 50 targets a year to 100 a day
In early November, the IDF said “more than 12,000” targets in Gaza had been identified by its target administration division.
Describing the unit’s targeting process, an official said: “We work without compromise in defining who and what the enemy is. The operatives of Hamas are not immune – no matter where they hide.”
The activities of the division, formed in 2019 in the IDF’s intelligence directorate, are classified.
However a short statement on the IDF website claimed it was using an AI-based system called Habsora (the Gospel, in English) in the war against Hamas to “produce targets at a fast pace”.
The IDF said that “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”.
Multiple sources familiar with the IDF’s targeting processes confirmed the existence of the Gospel to +972/Local Call, saying it had been used to produce automated recommendations for attacking targets, such as the private homes of individuals suspected of being Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives.
In recent years, the target division has helped the IDF build a database of what sources said was between 30,000 and 40,000 suspected militants. Systems such as the Gospel, they said, had played a critical role in building lists of individuals authorised to be assassinated.
Aviv Kochavi, who served as the head of the IDF until January, has said the target division is “powered by AI capabilities” and includes hundreds of officers and soldiers.
In an interview published before the war, he said it was “a machine that produces vast amounts of data more effectively than any human, and translates it into targets for attack”.
Aviv Kochavi in his role as head of the IDF in 2019. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP
According to Kochavi, “once this machine was activated” in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May 2021 it generated 100 targets a day. “To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year. Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”
Precisely what forms of data are ingested into the Gospel is not known. But experts said AI-based decision support systems for targeting would typically analyse large sets of information from a range of sources, such as drone footage, intercepted communications, surveillance data and information drawn from monitoring the movements and behaviour patterns of individuals and large groups.
The target division was created to address a chronic problem for the IDF: in earlier operations in Gaza, the air force repeatedly ran out of targets to strike. Since senior Hamas officials disappeared into tunnels at the start of any new offensive, sources said, systems such as the Gospel allowed the IDF to locate and attack a much larger pool of more junior operatives.
One official, who worked on targeting decisions in previous Gaza operations, said the IDF had not previously targeted the homes of junior Hamas members for bombings. They said they believed that had changed for the present conflict, with the houses of suspected Hamas operatives now targeted regardless of rank.
“That is a lot of houses,” the official told +972/Local Call. “Hamas members who don’t really mean anything live in homes across Gaza. So they mark the home and bomb the house and kill everyone there.”
Targets given ‘score’ for likely civilian death toll
In the IDF’s brief statement about its target division, a senior official said the unit “produces precise attacks on infrastructure associated with Hamas while inflicting great damage to the enemy and minimal harm to non-combatants”.
The precision of strikes recommended by the “AI target bank” has been emphasised in multiple reports in Israeli media. The Yedioth Ahronoth daily newspaper reported that the unit “makes sure as far as possible there will be no harm to non-involved civilians”.
A former senior Israeli military source told the Guardian that operatives use a “very accurate” measurement of the rate of civilians evacuating a building shortly before a strike. “We use an algorithm to evaluate how many civilians are remaining. It gives us a green, yellow, red, like a traffic signal.”
However, experts in AI and armed conflict who spoke to the Guardian said they were sceptical of assertions that AI-based systems reduced civilian harm by encouraging more accurate targeting.
A lawyer who advises governments on AI and compliance with humanitarian law said there was “little empirical evidence” to support such claims. Others pointed to the visible impact of the bombardment.
“Look at the physical landscape of Gaza,” said Richard Moyes, a researcher who heads Article 36, a group that campaigns to reduce harm from weapons.
“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.”
Satellite images of the northern city of Beit Hanoun in Gaza before (10 October) and after (21 October) damage caused by the war. Photograph: Maxar Technologies/Reuters
According to figures released by the IDF in November, during the first 35 days of the war Israel attacked 15,000 targets in Gaza, a figure that is considerably higher than previous military operations in the densely populated coastal territory. By comparison, in the 2014 war, which lasted 51 days, the IDF struck between 5,000 and 6,000 targets.
Multiple sources told the Guardian and +972/Local Call that when a strike was authorised on the private homes of individuals identified as Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives, target researchers knew in advance the number of civilians expected to be killed.
Each target, they said, had a file containing a collateral damage score that stipulated how many civilians were likely to be killed in a strike.
One source who worked until 2021 on planning strikes for the IDF said “the decision to strike is taken by the on-duty unit commander”, some of whom were “more trigger happy than others”.
The source said there had been occasions when “there was doubt about a target” and “we killed what I thought was a disproportionate amount of civilians”.
An Israeli military spokesperson said: “In response to Hamas’ barbaric attacks, the IDF operates to dismantle Hamas military and administrative capabilities. In stark contrast to Hamas’ intentional attacks on Israeli men, women and children, the IDF follows international law and takes feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm.”
‘Mass assassination factory’
Sources familiar with how AI-based systems have been integrated into the IDF’s operations said such tools had significantly sped up the target creation process.
“We prepare the targets automatically and work according to a checklist,” a source who previously worked in the target division told +972/Local Call. “It really is like a factory. We work quickly and there is no time to delve deep into the target. The view is that we are judged according to how many targets we manage to generate.”
A separate source told the publication the Gospel had allowed the IDF to run a “mass assassination factory” in which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality”. A human eye, they said, “will go over the targets before each attack, but it need not spend a lot of time on them”.
For some experts who research AI and international humanitarian law, an acceleration of this kind raises a number of concerns.
Dr Marta Bo, a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said that even when “humans are in the loop” there is a risk they develop “automation bias” and “over-rely on systems which come to have too much influence over complex human decisions”.
Moyes, of Article 36, said that when relying on tools such as the Gospel, a commander “is handed a list of targets a computer has generated” and they “don’t necessarily know how the list has been created or have the ability to adequately interrogate and question the targeting recommendations”.
“There is a danger,” he added, “that as humans come to rely on these systems they become cogs in a mechanised process and lose the ability to consider the risk of civilian harm in a meaningful way.”
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Ukrainaz, oraindik?
“Ukraine, Baltic nations to boycott OSCE meeting over Russia’s Lavrov attending”
Diplomacy died and has been replaced with “socialisation”
– Meeting an opponent is to “reward”
– Understanding an opponent is to “legitimise”
– Compromise is “appeasement”
– There are no competing security interests, only good versus evil values
– We are a “force for good”, they have bad “behaviour”
– Caution is cowardice
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Very deceitful and misleading question. Chinese or British governments had not been installed by the US after unconstitutional bloody coup in the way the Kiev regime was, and you, Mr. McFaul, know it better than anyone else (except maybe Victoria Nuland). Therefore the US was not in a position to tell them what they should do. As for the vassal Zelenskiy (previously Poroshenko) junta, it is since 2014 completely on American life support, economically and militarily, and comes to heel on your country’s command. Therefore it’s Washington who decides the questions of war and peace, not Kiev
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Michael McFaul@McFaul
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Im not an expert. In the second year of World War II, did Americans tell the Brits or Chinese to stop fighting and sue for peace without suggesting a strategy to get the Nazis or Japanese to stop fighting? What is good to read on this history?
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
Stephanie Kelton@StephanieKelton
The national debt (so-called) is a savings facility. It exists because the US government permits holders of US$ to “park” a prescribed fraction of US currency in an interest-bearing savings account (aka Treasuries). Can we have a grown-up convo at some point?
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Ro Khanna
aza. 29
The national debt was caused by 4 things: 1) Reagan’s tax cuts, 2) Bush’s tax cuts, 3) Trump’s tax cuts, and 4) Bush’s overseas wars. We don’t need a fiscal commission to study it. Everyone knows Johnson’s fiscal commission will recommend cuts in Social Security & Medicare.…
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“Bond Vigilantes” explained by @wbmosler
Bideoa: https://twitter.com/i/status/1730239646120948222
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