Summary
The Israeli army’s AI-based target-generation system, called “The Gospel”, which, on the account of intelligence sources in ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza, generates targets almost automatically at a rate far exceeding what was previously possible and facilitates what one former intelligence officer called a “mass assassination factory” (lines 102, 244).
Details
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Habsora generates, among other things, automatic recommendations for attacking private residences where people suspected of being Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives live (line 240).
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One source says it processes enormous amounts of data that “tens of thousands of intelligence officers could not process” and recommends bombing sites in real time (line 242).
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A human eye goes over targets before each attack but need not spend a lot of time on them; a former intelligence officer explained that the system enables the army to run a “mass assassination factory” in which the “emphasis is on quantity and not on quality” (line 244).
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The IDF Spokesperson’s November 2, 2023 statement says Habsora “enables the use of automatic tools to produce targets at a fast pace, and works by improving accurate and high-quality intelligence material according to [operational] needs.” (line 234)
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Automated systems like Habsora facilitated calculating potential casualties; five sources confirmed the expected number of civilians who may be killed appears in the target file under “collateral damage” (lines 256-258).
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In ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza, “The Gospel” is distinguished from Lavender: whereas The Gospel marks buildings and structures that the army claims militants operate from, Lavender marks people — and puts them on a kill list (line 102 of that source).
Related pages
‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza, ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza, Lavender, Where’s Daddy?, Power targets, Targets Administrative Division, Dahiyeh Doctrine