‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza - +927 Magazine 11/30/2023 (CW: The usual text, Pictures, but also AI is involved)
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza - +927 Magazine 11/30/2023 (CW: The usual text, Pictures, but also AI is involved)
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI 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.
stumbled on it here nitter.net/RnaudBertrand
To supplement with what you've posted, these are super long Twitter threads on how the IOF conducts war based on soldier testimony from Operation Protective Edge. The tl;dr is that there's no ROE outside of shelling every single house and killing anything that moves. The grunts repeatedly found themselves not knowing what to do, and multiple soldiers compare their experience to playing COD.
Compared to previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the current war — which Israel has named “Operation Iron Swords,” and which began in the wake of the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 — has seen the army significantly expand its bombing of targets that are not distinctly military in nature. These include private residences as well as public buildings, infrastructure, and high-rise blocks, which sources say the army defines as “power targets” (“matarot otzem”).
The bombing of power targets, according to intelligence sources who had first-hand experience with its application in Gaza in the past, is mainly intended to harm Palestinian civil society: to “create a shock” that, among other things, will reverberate powerfully and “lead civilians to put pressure on Hamas,” as one source put it.
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.
