According to the Global Times, US President Joe Biden on December 5 local time, citing "survivors and witnesses," said that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) had repeatedly raped and mutilated women during the attack on southern Israel on October 7. Hamas fired back on its social media account on the same day, accusing Biden of "attempting to make false accusations."

At the same time as this incident caused controversy, some media recently exposed that Israel used artificial intelligence (AI) in its air strikes on Gaza to systematically select air targets. Anonymous sources say Israel has collected data on tens of thousands of private homes and apartments in the Gaza Strip. Israel estimates that there are about 30,000 Hamas members in Gaza, and that they have all been tagged. In this case, the Israeli military relaxed restrictions so that once someone associated with Hamas entered the building, every civilian in the building was considered a "legitimate" target.

Biden accused Hamas of raping and maiming women

Hamas accuses Biden of 'attempting False accusations'

The report said that Biden talked about the topic at a political fundraiser in Boston on the 5th. Over the past few weeks, he said, "unimaginable cruelty" had been shared.

"There are reports that women are raped, and raped repeatedly, that their bodies are mutilated, their bodies are desecrated, and that Hamas members inflict as much pain and suffering on women and girls as possible and then kill them. It's shocking." Biden said. He called on international organizations, civil society and individuals to condemn sexual violence "without exception."

According to the report, Israeli police are investigating possible sexual crimes committed by those arrested after October 7. The Israeli Justice Ministry said the victims were tortured, physically abused, raped and mutilated.

Hamas, meanwhile, said in a statement that the group condemned Biden's "attempt to falsely accuse" its fighters of sexual violence and rape on Oct. 7, accusing him of working with Israel to cover up U.S.-backed war crimes in Gaza and misleading public opinion.

The Israeli Army uses AI:

Target selection with unprecedented speed

According to reports, the Israeli military claimed on November 2 that it used artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict to pinpoint and strike targets in order to minimize civilian casualties. But when asked for clarification, the Israeli military declined to discuss the military applications of this AI.

Therefore, some media began to investigate the mechanism of AI in Israel's air strikes on Gaza, and how the Israeli army planned to choose targets for air strikes. The investigation is said to be based on the testimony of seven current and former members of the Israeli intelligence community, including military intelligence and air force personnel involved in operations in the Gaza Strip, as well as official Israeli statements, documents from inside Gaza, and Palestinian testimonies.

An IDF spokesman noted that as of November 10, in the first 35 days, Israel had struck 15,000 targets. The number is unprecedented, according to intelligence sources who have been involved in previous military operations. During the 10-day operation in 2021 and the three-week operation in 2014, Israeli forces attacked 100-200 targets per day. However, the target generation rate could not keep up, resulting in no targets to attack, and the operation was quickly ended.

According to reports, the Israeli military has widely adopted a variety of AI systems, among which the Gospel system is capable of generating potential targets in batches. In 2019, the Israeli Army created an AI department consisting of several hundred people. Former IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi revealed this year: "In the past, we set 50 targets in Gaza every year. Now, 100 new targets are generated every day since the machine started."

Former senior intelligence officials said that with AI, the Israeli military could for the first time generate new targets at a faster rate than airstrikes. "We are automatically generating targets and working on a list of targets," said a source who works in the AI unit. "It's really like working in a factory, working so fast that we don't have time to delve into each target." The intelligence source revealed that Gospel was able to process large amounts of data that "tens of thousands of intelligence officers could not handle" and recommended bombing sites in real time, with "the focus on quantity rather than accuracy."

Five anonymous sources said Israel had collected data on tens of thousands of private homes and apartments in the Gaza Strip. Since Israel estimates there are about 30,000 Hamas members in Gaza, and they have all been marked, the number of targets to bomb is huge. In this case, the Israeli army relaxed restrictions so that once someone associated with Hamas entered the building, every civilian in the building was considered a legitimate target. A former military intelligence official said the new policy made much of Gaza's infrastructure a legitimate target. "Hamas is everywhere, so every building can be a target," he said.

The embedding of artificial intelligence into military operations has generated a lot of controversy

Idf officials say the technology is not regulated at the national level

According to a report by Thepaper.cn in July this year, at present, the Israeli military mainly uses two artificial intelligence systems to participate in military operations. One is a system for processing large amounts of data and selecting targets for air strikes; The other is an AI model used to calculate ammunition loads and plan raids. Military officials say it is now possible to select targets for air strikes and carry them out in minutes, an unprecedented speed.

Proponents argue that these advanced algorithms could surpass human capabilities and help the military minimize casualties, while critics warn that over-reliance on increasingly autonomous systems could have deadly consequences.

Giving AI a high degree of control over military operations has generated a lot of controversy and discussion. An IDF official said that every target and air strike plan for both systems is currently overseen and reviewed by human operators, but the technology is not currently regulated at any international or national level.

"If an AI calculation goes wrong and the AI itself can't explain it, then who is responsible for the error?" "You can kill a family because of one mistake," said Tal Mimran, a lecturer in international law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former military legal adviser.

Sources:

There are four types of targets in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

Israel launched a military operation in Gaza after Hamas launched an offensive against southern Israel on October 7. From the first moments of the conflict, Israeli policymakers publicly declared that the scale of the counterattack would be completely different from previous military operations in Gaza, with the stated goal of the total elimination of Hamas. "The focus is on destruction, not precision," IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said Oct. 9. The army quickly translated these statements into action.

According to the sources, the targets in Gaza struck by Israeli aircraft can be broadly divided into four categories.

The first is "tactical targets," including militants, weapons depots, rocket launchers, anti-tank missile launchers, mortar shells, military command posts, observation posts and other standard military targets.

The second is "underground targets," mainly tunnels dug by Hamas under residential areas in Gaza, including civilian homes. Airstrikes on these targets could cause the collapse of houses above or near the tunnels.

The third is the "power target", which includes high-rise and residential buildings in urban centers, as well as public buildings such as universities, banks and government offices. According to sources involved in such attacks, the idea behind striking such targets is that it would put "civilian pressure" on Hamas.

The last category includes "family homes". The stated purpose of these attacks was to destroy private homes in order to assassinate residents associated with Hamas. However, according to Palestinian testimony, some homes were bombed but none of the agents lived in them.

According to the Israeli military, half of the targets bombed in the first five days - 1,329 out of a total of 2,687 targets - were considered electrical targets, and 6,000 bombs with a total weight of about 4,000 tons were dropped on the Gaza Strip. "We were asked to look for high-rise buildings, and there will always be a floor (linked to Hamas) in high-rise buildings. "The goal is to bring down buildings, to put pressure on Hamas, but also to give the [Israeli] public an image of victory." "The source said.

The source said the current "blatant strategy" was taking things dangerously close, explaining that the original intention of attacking power targets was to "shock" Gaza, not kill large numbers of civilians, "which means that the residents of the buildings need to be completely evacuated."

However, evidence from Gaza suggests that a number of high-rise buildings have been blown up and collapsed without prior warning, with at least two known cases so far.