by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
After a brief cease-fire in Gaza, the bombs are pouring into Gaza once more where reportedly over 700 people have been killed in just the last 24 hours, as the genocide of the Palestinian people continues.
‘Death Zone’: Over 700 Killed in 24 Hours as Israeli Bombing Blitz of Gaza Rages
“What Israel is doing in Gaza right now is one of the most cruel tactics of war I’ve ever seen,” said one healthcare aid worker.
More than 700 people were killed in the Gaza Strip in just 24 hours, the Health Ministry in the besieged territory said Sunday, as Israeli bombings escalated following a brief pause and wider evacuation orders stoke fears of wider displacement and carnage.
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According to an Al-Jazeera dispatch:
Overnight and into Sunday, intense bombing was reported in Khan Younis, Rafah, and some northern parts targeted by Israel’s air and ground attacks.
“Everywhere you turn to, there are children with third-degree burns, shrapnel wounds, brain injuries and broken bones,” James Elder, UNICEF’s global spokesperson, told Al Jazeera from Gaza.
“Mothers crying over children who look like they are hours away from death. It seems like a death zone right now.”
An explosive report about a computer program that Israel uses to choose targets in Gaza to bomb was just published this week, and the name of this computer program that sends bombs into Gaza to assassinate targets is reportedly called “The Gospel.”
It was published in an online magazine called “+972”, which is “an independent, online, nonprofit magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists” that provides “in-depth reporting, analysis, and opinions from the ground in Israel-Palestine.”
It was also covered in several other media sources, such as “The Guardian.”
A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.
The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals.
These factors, as described by current and former Israeli intelligence members, have likely played a role in producing what has been one of the deadliest military campaigns against Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948.
Compared to previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the current war — which Israel has named “Operation Iron Swords,” and which began in the wake of the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on October 7 — has seen the army significantly expand its bombing of targets that are not distinctly military in nature. These include private residences as well as public buildings, infrastructure, and high-rise blocks, which sources say the army defines as “power targets” (“matarot otzem”).
Several of the sources, who spoke to +972 and Local Call on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that the Israeli army has files on the vast majority of potential targets in Gaza — including homes — which stipulate the number of civilians who are likely to be killed in an attack on a particular target. This number is calculated and known in advance to the army’s intelligence units, who also know shortly before carrying out an attack roughly how many civilians are certain to be killed.
In one case discussed by the sources, the Israeli military command knowingly approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to assassinate a single top Hamas military commander.
“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”
According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible.
This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.” (Full article.)
And it is widely being reported now that the United States is supplying bombs made in the United States to Israel to be used in “The Gospel” bombing attacks on the people in Gaza.
US Sent Israel 15,000 Bombs Since October 7
The Wall Street Journal published details about the White House’s secretive arms transfers to Israel since October 7. The US has provided Israel with 57,000 artillery shells and 15,000 bombs, including over 5,000 with 2,000-pound warheads.
According to a list of weapons obtained by the Journal, the US has shipped Israel “more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided or ‘dumb’ bombs, more than 5,400 Mk84 2,000-pound warhead bombs, around 1,000 GBU-39 small diameter bombs, and approximately 3,000 JDAMs.” (Full article.)
This also includes 100 units of 2,000-pound BLU-109 bunker buster bombs.
US Reportedly Shipped 100 BLU-109 Bunker Buster Bombs to Help Israel Fight Hamas
The United States has delivered 100 units of 2,000-pound BLU-109 bunker buster bombs among thousands of other ammunition and weapons systems to Israel in the war against the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, US media reported on Friday.
Among the nearly 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells delivered to the Israeli military following Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, the United States has also transferred 100 BLU-109 bunker buster bombs, media reported, citing US officials.
The BLU-109 bomb, created to cause maximum damage, carries a 2,000-pound warhead capable of penetrating concrete shelters, it was reported. Israel could use such bunker buster bombs to penetrate Hamas’ vast network of underground tunnels and installations.
However, several security analysts have pointed out that the delivery of such bombs to Israel is inconsistent with the calls made by senior US officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to protect civilians and minimize human loss of life. (Full article.)
The word “Gospel” is an Old English word from “godspel” which means the “good news” about Jesus Christ. It is used in the New Testament portion of the Bible to translate the Greek word “euangelion“, such as these verses:
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Words of Jesus in Matthew 24:14.)
The essence of this “gospel” message is that both Jews and Gentiles can receive all of God’s promises originally given to Abraham.
This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 3:6)
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