UN experts deplore the purported use of AI in Gaza
CAIRO: A group of UN experts have deplored the purported use of artificial intelligence (AI) and related military directives by the Zionists in Gaza, leading to an unprecedented toll on the civilian population housing vital services and infrastructure. They noted that more than 15,000 deaths — almost half of all civilian deaths so far — occurred during the first six weeks after October 7, when AI systems seemed to have been largely relied upon for target selection.
“We are especially concerned about the alleged use of AI to target ‘family homes’ of suspected Hamas operatives, typically at night when they sleep with unguided munitions known as ‘dumb’ bombs, with little regard for civilians who may be in or around that home,” they said. They also expressed concern about the practice of bombing so-called “power targets,” such as large highrise residential and public buildings, especially in the first weeks of the war.
“Buildings that were not legitimate military targets were bombed simply with the intent to shock the population and increase civilian pressure on Hamas,” the experts said. The experts underscored that between 60 and 70 percent of all homes in Gaza and up to 84 percent of homes in northern Gaza are either fully destroyed or partly damaged. The experts stated that the systematic and widespread destruction of housing services and civilian infrastructure represents a crime against humanity as well as numerous war crimes and acts of genocide.
Kuwait’s Permanent Representative to the League of Arab States, Ambassador Talal Al-Mutairi has affirmed Kuwait’s condemnation of the starvation and genocide crimes that the Zionist occupation forces continue to commit against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The ambassador warned of the occupation forces continuing their grave violations of international humanitarian law against the Palestinian people, considering this a threat to international peace and security.
He stressed that the occupation authorities’ disregard for the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures, which demanded that humanitarian aid routes be opened without delay, “is considered a crime against humanity and an insult to the dignity of individuals, as they have the right to obtain food.” — KUNA