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          1. Israel deployed an AI targeting system to track 37,000 suspected Hamas militants (more than it estimated exists) and authorized destroying their homes from the start of the war. This is groundbreaking investigative reporting. 972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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          "In an unprecedented move… 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."
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        "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."
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      “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option.”
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    The air force “would come and bomb all the houses that we had marked. We took out thousands of people. We didn’t go through them one by one — we put everything into automated systems, and as soon as [he] was at home, he immediately became a target. We bombed him and his house.”
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      "According to sources, the machine gives almost every single person in Gaza a rating from 1 to 100, expressing how likely it is that they are a militant."
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        "One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the target is male."
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          "The result, as the sources testified, is that thousands of Palestinians — most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting — were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes … because of the AI program’s decisions."
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            "Sometimes mistakenly flagged individuals who had communication patterns similar to known Hamas or PIJ operatives — including police and civil defense workers, militants’ relatives," residents w/ an operative's name and nickname and Gazans who used their old phones
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              "the sources explained that a major reason for the unprecedented death toll from Israel’s current bombardment is the fact that the army has systematically attacked targets in their private homes, alongside their families"
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