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Satellite imagery reveals seven new Israeli army outposts in Syria

The new sites are equipped with living quarters and command centers and aim to reinforce an indefinite Israeli presence in Syria

US, France propose replacing Israeli army with mercenaries in south Lebanon: Report

Lebanon has rejected Israel’s continued occupation of south Lebanon and says it will ‘adopt all means’ to bring it to an end

Israeli war chief creates office to arrange 'voluntary exit' of Palestinians from Gaza

Israel is pressuring Palestinians to permanently leave Gaza after laying waste to large swathes of the strip and making it almost uninhabitable due to 15 months of bombing

🇮🇱l🇱🇧 The newly established Israeli site inside Lebanese territory on the Markaba - Houla road

❗️ Initial reports of an Israeli airstrike on the border town of Aita al-Shaab. One casualty reported

📸 Aita is literally a city of ruins. They spent 3 months destroying it and there is literally nothing to attack.

They have to have simply murdered a civilian now because he was checking his house.

Aita sits directly on the border wall area

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 The Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a park on the banks of the Wazzani River, wounding the park owner.

🥀 Yousef Muhammad Surur, son of the mayor of Aita al-Shaab, was martyred when his car was targeted by an Israeli drone in front of his house in the town.

The IDF murdered him claiming he was killed for being a Hezbullah member

How criminal, how murderous. A violation of every norm, law, ceasefire and all.

📸 Israeli soldiers throw sound bombs after exiting the border wall through one of the gaps to terrorize the residents of the town of Kfar Kila

This area is Lebanese not Israeli. They just created a few meter buffer zone.

❗️An Israeli bulldozer advanced from the settlement of Maskaf Am towards Khallet al-Mahafer, reaching close to the destroyed (police) gendarmerie station near the town square, and raised an earthen barrier that blocked the road to Khallet, which includes a large number of civilian homes.

This is a new piece of land. The Lebanese army didn't react

You lying bastards

Show drone footage showing him handling any weapons.

— 🇮🇷/🇶🇦NEW: As part of his official visit, Emir of Qatar had a meeting with Ayatollah Khamenei

@Middle_East_Spectator

الحضور في تشييع السيد الشهيد يوم الأحد القادم تحت المطر والبرد وكل الصعاب هو شيء يسير من رد الجميل لمن أفنى عمره في الدفاع عن المظلومين.

لا تفتو الفرصة، تعظيم تشييع السيد دين برقبتنا

🇱🇧 Based on the decision of the Executive Committee of the Amal Movement, it was decided to call for large participation in the funeral ceremonies that will be held in Beirut and Jabal Amel for Sayyed Hassan and Sayyed Hashem

إنا على العهد

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AI as an Israeli Weapon

- By Michael Biesecker

AI models from Microsoft & OpenAI were used by the IDF to help choose bombing targets in Gaza and Lebanon, an AP investigation finds.

It’s one of the first times commercial AI has been used in warfare.

The Israeli military uses AI to sift through vast troves of intelligence, intercepted communications, and surveillance to track its enemies.

After the Oct 7th operation, IDF use of Microsoft and OpenAI technology skyrocketed — spiking last March to nearly 200 times higher than before the week leading up to the 10/7 attack

The amount of IDF data it stored on Microsoft servers doubled between that time and July 2024 to more than 13.6 petabytes — roughly 350 times the digital memory needed to store every book in the Library of Congress.

Advanced AI models from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, are provided through Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, where they are purchased by the IDF, the documents and data show. Microsoft has been OpenAI’s largest investor.

OpenAI said it does not have a partnership with IDF and its usage policies say its customers should not use its products to develop weapons or harm people. However, OpenAI recently changed its terms of use to allow for “national security use cases that align with our mission.”

The IDF uses Microsoft Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance, which it transcribes and translates, including phone calls, texts and audio messages, an Israeli intelligence officer who works with the systems told AP. The Microsoft data shows that since the 7 October operation, the IDF has made heavy use of transcription and translation tools and OpenAI models, although it does not detail which. Typically, AI models that transcribe and translate perform best in English.

OpenAI's AI-powered translation model Whisper, which can transcribe and translate into multiple languages including Arabic, can make up text that no one said, including adding racial commentary and violent rhetoric, as detailed in an earlier AP report.

One three-year contract between Microsoft and IDF began in 2021 and was worth $133 million, making it the company’s second largest military customer globally after the U.S., according to a document reviewed by the AP

The relationship between tech companies and IDF also has ramifications in the U.S., where some employees have raised ethical concerns. In October, Microsoft fired two workers for helping organize an unauthorized lunchtime vigil for Palestinian refugees.

“Cloud and AI are the bombs and bullets of the 21st century," said Hossam Mabed, one of the employees fired over the vigil.

"Microsoft is providing the Israeli military with digital weapons to kill, maim and displace Palestinians, in the gravest moral travesty of our time.”

It’s extremely hard to identify when AI systems enable wrongful deaths.

In Nov. 2023, Hoda Hijazi was fleeing with her 3 young daughters and her mom from clashes between Israel and Hezbullah on the Lebanese border when their car was bombed.

Before they left, the adults told the girls to play in front of the house so that Israeli drones would know they were traveling with children.

The women and girls drove alongside Hijazi’s uncle, Samir Ayoub, a journalist who was caravanning in his own car.

Soon, an airstrike hit the car Hijazi was driving. It careened down a slope and burst into flames.

Ayoub managed to pull Hijazi out, but her mother — Ayoub’s sister — and the three girls — Rimas, 14, Taline, 12, and Liane, 10 — were dead.

The day after the family was hit, IDF released video of the strike with a statement that it had “struck just over 450 Hamas targets.”

AP’s visual analysis matched the the Israeli military video to satellite imagery of the location where the three girls died.

IDF denied that AI systems were used during the airstrike on the Hijazi family, but refused to answer whether AI helped select the target or whether it was wrong.

The military told AP that officials examined the incident and expressed “sorrow for the outcome.”

As tech firms seek contracts those who lost relatives seek answers. “Even with all this pain, I can’t stop asking: Why?” said Mahmoud Adnan Chour, father of the three girls.

“Why did the plane choose that car — the one filled with my children’s laughter echoing from its windows?”