'The Gospel': Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza

Unless they're underground. Alongside the entire Hamas military apparatus, hostages, munitions, and the things Israel blows up refuge camps looking to destroy.

This is the importance of having an appeals court. This is a nation that has a completely separate form of autonomy for its territories with no access to the federation's courts, while insisting that these territories are not countries. If not country, give access to courts where someone can appeal being targeted for state and military assassination, else apartheid state. Its one or the other.

Funding should be withdrawn and sanctions levied until a semblance of due process is implemented. Sanctions would prevent our defense contractors from being involved, and be an incentivize to harmonize laws or as Israel says to rationalize its willful collateral damage “cause society to exert civil pressure”.

Sanctioning Israeli persons and entities would be far less awkward for the US people than funding and giving stern words, we’re stuck debating with people that have some pretty juvenile thought processes and medieval rules of engagement, masquerading it as restraint and morally superior just because they didn’t carpet bomb but could. Hamas entities are already sanctioned.

https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...

Unfortunately I think the subject is too controversial for hn.

> In recent years, the target division has helped the IDF build a database of what sources said was between 30,000 and 40,000 suspected militants. Systems such as the Gospel, they said, had played a critical role in building lists of individuals authorised to be assassinated.

This seems to be an image matching program. Though, given the IDF recent performance, one has to wonder how accurate and effective that would be.

This is much different (if that's the full scope) than the US signature strike drones; which uses movement patterns to determine if the target is a terrorist.

Talk about absolving accountability.

Are there any experts of international law, that may be able to add what are the repercussions of using such systems?