UN experts deplore Israel's use of purported AI to commit 'domicide' in Gaza

UN experts today deplored Israel's reported use of AI and relative military directives in the Gaza Strip "leading to an unprecedented toll on the civilian population, housing, vital services and infrastructure."

"Six months into the current military offensive, more housing and civilian infrastructure has now been destroyed in Gaza as a percentage, compared to any conflict in memory," the experts said. "Homes are gone, and with that, the memories, hopes and aspirations of Palestinians and their ability to realise other rights, including their rights to land, food, water, sanitation, health, security and privacy (especially of women and girls), education, development, a healthy environment and self-determination. And this comes on top of systematic demolitions of Palestinian homes over decades of occupation and previous bombardments."

They say that the systematic and widespread destruction of housing, services and civilian infrastructure represents a crime against humanity, which they call a domicide, inlcuding numerous other "war crimes and acts of genocide" described by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, in her latest report to the Human Rights Council.