The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence system called Lavender to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing campaign in Gaza. When Israel attacked Gaza after the Hamas attack last Oct. 7, the Lavender system had a database of 37,000 Palestinian men with suspected links to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Lavender assigns a numerical score, from one to 100, to every man in Gaza, based mainly on cellphone and social media data, and automatically adds those with high scores to its kill list of suspected militants. Israel uses another automated system, known as Where’s Daddy?, to call in airstrikes to kill these men and their families in their homes.
