Summary
One of several automated tracking systems revealed for the first time in ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza, used specifically to track individuals marked for assassination and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences (line 94).
Details
- Tracking programs track thousands of individuals simultaneously, identify when they are at home, and send an automatic alert to the targeting officer, who then marks the house for bombing; “Where’s Daddy?” is one of several such softwares (line 226).
- “You put hundreds [of targets] into the system and wait to see who you can kill,” said one source. “It’s called broad hunting: you copy-paste from the lists that the target system produces.” (line 228).
- Each time the pace of assassinations waned, more targets were added to systems like Where’s Daddy?; the decision could be made by relatively low-ranking officers, one of whom added something like 1,200 new targets on his own accord (lines 232-234).
- In the first two weeks, several thousand targets were initially inputted, including all Nukhba members, all anti-tank operatives, and anyone who entered Israel on October 7; in the end it was everyone marked by Lavender, tens of thousands (lines 236-238).
- Combined with Lavender, the system placed a marked person under ongoing surveillance and he could be attacked as soon as he set foot in his home, collapsing the house on everyone inside (line 242).
- A substantial gap could open between the system’s alert and the bombing, so whole families were killed without hitting the target; three sources witnessed an incident in which the intended target was not inside the house (lines 366-374).
Related pages
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza, Lavender, Habsora