Gaza Herald _A damning investigation published by the French newspaper Le Monde in collaboration with the Israeli veterans’ organization Breaking the Silence has pulled back the curtain on the systematic, algorithmic mechanism driving Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
Drawing on direct testimonies from Israeli soldiers, drone operators, and military officers, the report exposes an internal state framework that uses artificial intelligence to generate human targets on an industrial scale while pre-authorizing the slaughter of up to dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of Palestinian civilians per single airstrike. The revelations provide undeniable evidence that the massive death toll in Gaza, which has surpassed 74,000 Palestinians, is not the result of unintended operational errors or rogue troops, but rather the deliberate, calculated outcome of official Israeli doctrine and state-sanctioned extermination policies.
The Mathematics of Mass Murder: Pre-Calculated Civilian Death Tolls
The testimonies describe a chilling internal military framework that mathematically calculates acceptable numbers of Palestinian civilian deaths, dismissed in military jargon as “collateral damage”, prior to approving air attacks. According to a former drone operator, the occupation military operates under sliding fire policies that grant explicit advance permission to commanders to wipe out entire families.
Depending on the operational phase, standard strikes were routinely approved with thresholds permitting the deliberate killing of up to 5, 10, 20, or 40 Palestinian civilians per target. For higher-ranking figures, these limits were discarded entirely, as demonstrated during the October 31, 2023 massacre at the Jabalia refugee camp, where planners authorized several hundred civilian casualties for a single strike that leveled an entire residential neighborhood and slaughtered at least 126 Palestinians, including 68 children, despite having only an approximate location for their target.
Algorithmic Warfare: How Gaza Was Converted Into an Automated Target Factory
The investigation details how the Israeli military turned the densely populated enclave into a fully automated, high-tech killing field through total reliance on advanced artificial intelligence programs designed to strip away human discretion and empathy. The military utilized an AI software known as Habsora, or “The Gospel,” to process massive streams of surveillance data and churn out physical targets at a speed far exceeding human capacity, alongside Lavender, a predictive AI system that processed personal data to flag tens of thousands of individual Palestinians for assassination based on loose, automated risk scores. Described by one participating soldier as an environment where Gaza was transformed into a target factory, these systems served to streamline mass destruction, granting troops blanket authorization to execute algorithmically marked individuals while they slept unarmed in their homes alongside their spouses and children.
The Illusion of Warnings and the Reality of Enforced Impunity
The report completely dismantles the occupation regime’s propaganda regarding civilian evacuation orders and human shields by proving that military planners possessed precise, real-time surveillance data on the populations they bombed.
Using cell phone tracking and location intelligence, commanders knew down to the exact percentage how many civilians remained in an area after issuing forced displacement notices, meaning carpet-bombing runs known as fire belts were executed with full, premeditated knowledge of the civilian density below. Compounded by permissive rules of engagement on the ground under the brutal Dahiya Doctrine, which encourages overwhelming firepower and indiscriminate destruction, soldiers were empowered to execute anyone crossing arbitrary, invisible boundaries with absolute impunity, guaranteed by an internal military justice system that opened criminal investigations into only two out of hundreds of documented atrocities.
