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Touchdown!
After enduring nearly 14 years of arbitrary detention in the UK, 5 years in maximum security prison, for his groundbreaking publishing work with @wikileaks, Julian Assange has arrived home on Australian soil.
Free at last. #FreedomFlight
This is without a doubt one of the most important pieces of reporting on Gaza, and by far one of the most disturbing: https://t.co/C8ahv3cpbx
All by Israeli journalist @yuval_abraham based on whistleblower accounts from within the IDF and intelligence agencies.
Israel has developed an AI called "Lavender" to generate kill lists, with almost no human verification to double check the targets selected by the machine: only a a “rubber stamp” check of about “20 seconds” just to make sure the AI target is male.
Moreover, the Israeli army "systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity". In fact Israel developed another automated system called “Where’s Daddy?” used "specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences" 🤮
One of the intelligence officers who spoke to Abraham is quoted in the article: “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
In fact the article reveals a ratio, I think for the first time: "according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians... The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander."
A ratio of 20 civilians killed for one target works out to about 95% civilian deaths.
Please do read the whole article as it describes in details how the whole process works with the Lavender AI. It's industrialized extermination the likes of which we haven't seen since... you know when.
Graphic scenes: An Israeli army drone pursued four civilian youths who attempted to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles in Khan Younis at the start of last February.
Israel kills 63 women every day in Gaza.
Israel kills 37 mothers every day in Gaza.
Israel has killed 9,000 women in Gaza in just 5 months
Israel raped and sexually assaulted Palestinian women
Are Palestinian women facing genocide included for International Women's Day today?
🇺🇸🇵🇸 Rachel Corrie
Over 20 years ago, an Israeli bulldozer crushed Rachel Corrie to death.
Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American woman who spent her time advocating for the rights of Palestinians.
On March 16th 2003, Rachel stood in front of a Palestinian home in Rafah, with the objective of preventing an Israeli bulldozer from destroying it.
She was wearing a bright orange vest, and was yelling through a megaphone trying to persuade the driver to stop.
The bulldozer ran her over.
Israel claimed her death was an accident.
Her family never received justice.
Rachel’s last words were, “I think my back is broken.”
RIP Rachel Corrie 💔🕊️
2023 has been a year of catastrophic suffering and loss.
It has also been a year of unwavering solidarity between those who believe that all human lives are of equal worth.
In 2024, we will keep campaigning for a ceasefire, for justice, and for lasting peace around the world.