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Uncovering how Israel profits from surveillance technologies using occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground. Israel punches way above its weight when it comes to arms sales. The 97th country by population, it is the ninth largest arms dealer in the world with a $13bn military-industrial complex. "Plenty of countries sell weapons," says award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein, "but what makes Israel's industry unique is the mix of weapons, surveillance technology and architectural techniques that combine to create a comprehensive system for controlling 'difficult' populations and are based on years of experience in Palestine." In this two-part series, Loewenstein goes on a journey to investigate how these weapons and surveillance technologies are used to control and repress Palestinians in Palestine before being sold all over the world. Antony Loewenstein is a Jewish, Australian journalist and author who for more than 20 years has written unflinchingly about Israel and its relationship with the Palestinians, even though it has often put him at odds with many in the Jewish diaspora and Israel. In Episode 1, Loewenstein returns to Israel to investigate how cutting-edge military and surveillance technology is being used on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, before being marketed to international clients as "field-proven" and "battle-tested". Hearing from Palestinians and Israelis, he uncovers how a pipeline of personnel and research from the Israeli army feeds into semi-private arms companies which form a crucial part of Israel's exports to the world. He also investigates the Israeli army's use of targeting systems that utilise artificial intelligence during the Gaza war after October 7, 2023.

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the fbra air show one of the largest in the world global weapons giants like BAE

Systems lock heat Martin and Airbus come to show off their latest military

hardware billions of dollars of civil and Military deals are done here every

year standing shoulder-to-shoulder with these global Military Giants are Israel's top weapons manufact fa like

Israel Aerospace Industries and missile makers

Raphael in the main hall Israel's largest private weapons company Elbert

has a huge stand they need it to Showcase their worldclass drones and

missiles despite its tiny population Israel is the world's ninth largest

weapons producer aom this High budget promo is

for the trophy anti-missile system made by Israeli company Raphael it's the kind

of advanced technology Israel specializes in and makes the Israeli MK for tank one of the best on the market

automatically activated only when enemy fire is sure to hit the vehicle both tank and anti-missile Systems sell

around the world to undisclosed clients overall Israel exports more than

$13 billion of weapons and surveillance equipment a year and with adverts like

this for the spike Firefly Israeli companies hint that their products may

have been battle tested in Palestine so how does being a major armed supplier impact Israel's diplomatic position

could it give the country a measure of impunity when it wants to undertake its own

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Wars I've just got a stash of books from my publisher today uh my book and other

books mostly related to Palestine and uh Guerilla journalism just some

light reading I'm about to do an event a Q&A about my book The Palestine

laboratory the book's been quite controversial it's a look at how the occupation of Palestine allows Israel to

test weapons which are then sold around the world I wanted to do a book really not

just about the whole concept of the arms indust industry which is an interesting subject but can be a bit dry but what

Israel is testing and selling and promoting is not just Weaponry it's an

idea it's a concept and it's a very appealing concept to many other

countries Israel sells the idea of getting away with

it to find out how tiny Israel has managed to develop this huge military

and surveillance machine I'm heading back to Israel and Palestine it's not

really clear if I'm going to get in I haven't been there for a few

years wish me luck although I'm Jewish I'm not a

citizen of Israel and their immigration rules say they can refuse entry to critics of the country or those who have

called for boycotts so they have multiple reasons for turning me

away my arrival was surprisingly smooth so I'm heading straight to East

Jerusalem Israel has been occupying the West Bank

since 1967 and has developed a unique system of controlling the Palestinian population from checkpoints in the

separation wall to increasingly Innovative methods of

surveillance these walls are not just walls they can listen and they are listening to

probably us right now I suspect it's it's in these population management technologies that Israel is a global

leader so I want to see how they first use it to control Palestinians before being sold around the

world I'm on my way to Mama a businessman in East Jerusalem to find

out how all this impacts ordinary [Music]

Palestinians you can see my office from this camera inside so the cameras are both

looking into Damascus gate but also out in and

out so I'm standing on a balcony literally overlooking Damascus gate it's

osama's office his insurance office and all around behind me over there there's

multiple surveillance Towers right behind me there's a camera watching me

so I'm going to watch it Asama wants to show me the very

physical reality of the occupation the restrictions on the movement of

Palestinians his daily commute from the West Bank to Jerusalem is through the Candia

checkpoint AMA how do you feel when you cross kandia

checkpoint you're crying I 24 hours about my my daughter my son if he need

me I am here and this is traffic I need 3 Hour 4 hour to go to to help my son

you understand that I do I can understand why this would make you nervous you can see Soldier here any

mistake you lost your life and that's happened many times yes the soldiers

have the power to detain people like aama for hours question them and place them in administrative detention without

charge or trial [Music]

should ask that's it I can go I ask him it's almost like

you have to ask permission to go into Jerusalem to get back to your own City

but this physical infrastructure is just the beginning Israel has a vision of a seamless future where technology

minimizes the interactions between Palestinians and the Israeli Army Israel

says it's safer but it's quite dystopic my

hi a meeting Palestinian digital rights campaigner monaa to find out more

explain the growing Trend within Israeli thinking of a so-called frictionless

occupation well the whole automation aims to eliminate the the direct

interaction between the Israeli as occupying force and Palestinians as

occupied people and to make the main interaction between Palestinians and the technology so it could create this idea

that our problem is not with the occupier but rather with a

technology heon is the testing ground for many of these supposedly frictionless Technologies the city is

split into two zones H1 with a population of nearly 200,000 in H2

355,000 Palestinians live under the Gaze of the 750 settlers and 800 soldiers who

have taken over the center of the city Palestinians living in H2 face the

heaviest surveillance in the West Bank and the strictest travel

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restrictions

fore

fore cat for

under the so-called frictionless occupation these cameras are linked to artificial intelligence systems watching

for what Israel deames threatening behavior there's someone who watch you

who knows what you are doing but you don't necessar know who's watching you

Palestinians need to think about behaving at our best all the time sometimes you might be angry from

something that happens with your family in your home or at your work and then

you might look like angry and with a predictive policing you never know when you would be identified as a security

threat by the Israelis so you need to fake your

emotions if the frictionless occupation can't get a fixed camera on you it can send a flying one this was recorded just

a few miles south of Hebron

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Issa Amro is a human rights activist living in H2 this is a military post

full of cameras and surveillance and they watch us for sure now so let's say

hi I usually say hi to them we are in the main street in teda

Palestinians are not allowed to drive here pal shops are closed by military orders and the street here is full of

Israeli military surveillance let's see the Palestinian K kids in the window

they are caged in the house look they they put fences in their Windows to be protected from the settler and army

violence look surveillance for the military is up

there and this is the surveillance of the Israeli settlers so imagine that the Israeli settlers they have their own

systems here these checkpoints are where the latest frictionless technology is tested including this AI enabled

remotely controlled gun which fires stung grenades tear gas and sponge tip

bullets it's made by Israeli company smart shooter these checkpoints also boast

Israel's most comprehensive data Gathering tool

Wolfpack from 10 to 15 cameras are at the checkpoint this is where they use

red wolf and blue wolf the Israeli military recently

invented two systems red wolf and blue wolf blue wolf in the soldiers phones they take your photo then they know all

details about you where you've been where you go what you like what you don't like your private things then

there is another system the red wolf is set up in the checkpoints and in the control rooms and it's profiling

Palestinians according to their political stands when the soldiers scan a Palestinian face they get a traffic

light style indication of their supposed risk white for Palestinians who are not

doing anything about occupation you have yellow and you have orange for example I'm a human rights Defender I am red it

means check him make his life harder he's a suspect so the frictionless

technology actually enables a lot more friction for some people they use us as simulation objects

for their technology Israeli sec SEC solution companies they installed cameras sensors drones and they tested

it on us without our consent do they sell it do they use it

for other research what kind of data they collect it seems to be the often secret

Partnerships between the military and private sector that have helped Israeli companies become world leaders in their

fields in 2019 a report revealed that Israeli company any Vision had installed

Styles in the West Bank and was collecting movement and biometric data from the tens of thousands of

Palestinians forced to use them early investor Microsoft pulled their funding after this was revealed the company

changed its name to Uso and says it works in 43 countries with clients including casinos airports and

schools another Israeli company visites make behavioral recognition systems that

watch CCTV feeds for any threats the company actually created the ability to

take a realtime video stream and understand what's going on within the stream the company is supported by the

Israeli military it's marketed for use in cities prisons and refugee camps

around the [Music] world we're in abis in East Jerusalem

and I'm standing next to a old but now derelict Hotel owned by Palestinians

and during the second Intero in the early 2000s the separation wall was built and it's kind of surrounded now on

all sides no one can access it the owners can't use it the guests are not coming but what Israel has done is on

the top they've installed surveillance cameras the location is patrolled by

police and private security 24 hours a day just a minute ago we saw the move

probably to watch us minutes later four young Israeli police officers with machine guns approached us so what are

you explaining about the situation this formerly Palestinian Run

Hotel taken over by the military and turned into a surveillance post could be seen as a microcosm of the occupation

but what is visible is just part of the overall picture of how the occupation

surveils Palestinians first there is the physical infrastructure of walls and checkpoints

the checkpoints record movement data and biometric information then they have CCTV cameras which are monitored by AI

for perceived threats of violence and that in turn is hooked up to databases like red wolf which track everyone's

political profile but there's also a more fundamental level of surveillance

which is that most of the phone and internet system is routed through Israel Israel is controlling the ICT

infrastructure in the in in the occupied Palestinian territory which means that Palestinians are not able to have safe

access to the internet with control of basic Communications infrastructure the

Israelis know every phone number and can tap any call Israeli intelligence also

have teams monitoring all the social media platforms many Palestinians basically they don't share their

political opinion online because they would be afraid of being interrogated or arrested by the Israelis I find it

remarkable that sometimes blanket CCTV coverage analyzed by artificial

intelligence and backed up by biometric movement tracking just isn't enough

surveillance I'm off to meet a man who once presented such a threat to the authorities that they deployed the

world's most invasive spye on him Anthony hithon lovely to meet you U

alaboodi didn't look threatening to me he runs the bisan center which campaigns for the rights of

Palestinians do you have any idea why you were targeted I think it has to do

with the targeting of any kind of Palestinian Civil Society Israel sees us as part of a establishing that there is

a Palestinian people how did you hear that your phone had been infected by Pegasus and why do

you think that happened you're working with Palestinian human rights organization El haak right I was contact

by alhak in late 2021 they found that one of their employees had Pegasus on

his phone I had my device checked and they told me that my phone was infected by Pegasus spyware a couple of days

later the Israeli uh Minister of Defense uh benig Gans designated six Palestinian

Civil Society organization as terrorist organization including ban including ban

Pegasus is unique spyware that can access every aspect of your phone it can take control of your camera your

microphone and broadcast it to those controlling the software they can see your location access your data and see

what's on your screen including encrypted messaging apps is there anything you feel like you can do or do

you ultimately feel like there's not much you can practically do it was explained to me by a citizen lab that

once a state actor goes after any citizen or small organization there's

basically very little they can do Pegasus is produced by Israeli surveillance company NSO and is marketed

to government agencies as a tool for fighting crime and terrorism in 2021 an

investigation revealed that around 50,000 people worldwide potentially had it on their phones and a large number of

them were journalists lawyers dissidents and human rights Defenders 1 2 34 we

don't want your cyber War it's no accident that this spyware was developed in is

much of nso's staff is drawn from the Army's cyber intelligence unit

[Music] 88,200 this unit is tasked with Gathering intelligence from electronic

communications and conducting cyber warfare against Palestinians it's known for being highly Innovative and spinning

out successful cyber security companies like NSO to find out how 88,200 has helped

Israel become a global leader in surveillance technology I'm meeting Yakov Perry a former director of the

shined intelligence agency this one here was you dressed as

an Arab in Gaza when do you think that was 88 1988 can you say what you were

doing no okay that's um 68 yeah okay in

ness okay so the first year after six day occupation yeah yeah here we have all kinds of of way to

smuggle hangers what hangers also with explosives how has Israel sold itself

really for decades now as a global leader in defense and homeland security equipment you cannot defend yourself

only by a human uh sources you have to use also a technology in order to be on

the uh pinning side Israel had to be very very very creative to find

solutions that um you cannot buy in the

market or the um around the world one of the innovators is unit 8200 it's been

around for many years talk a little bit about based on your experience what that unit is we have developed a unique

technology how to where to tape whom be be raped and the ability to reach to top

secrets that usually are hidden we say that if a

ruler wants to H do something it's is in

his mind but he cannot do it alone he has to share it with at least one two

three or four people who are close to him and we have developed Technologies

that can reach the right persons that we will tap and know so 88,200 became a one

of the secrets of Israeli intelligence I'm not asking you to reveal top secret

intelligence but give a sense what are the kind of methods that Israel was using to try to get that intelligence if

you want to follow a certain terrorist or a certain cell you have to be

equipped with surveillance technology that gives you the advantage

to watch him without him sensing

you you have to develop ammunition which you can use in a remote control for a

long distance so sometimes the you headquarters is in Tel Aviv and the

terrorist cell is in Gaza Strip and you want to uh kill somebody

you have to be very very accurate you have to be with

a the best technology that you will not be accused by killing innocent

people we are getting hits send the lanus Israel is a leader in remote

control bombing with small drones like the controversial lanus systems presents

lanus SE an attack in one new Innovative autonomous lethal solution they're part

of the class of small highly maneuverable quadcopters getting extensive use for the first time in

Gaza the high budget promo suggests it may have been battle tested in Palestine

and the Drone is exactly what Perry is describing andity in a complex Urban

environment a remote controlled explosive that can be put next to the Target

Israel is now about the ninth or 10th biggest arms seller in the world it depends every year how does Israel

become for a relatively small country one of the biggest arms sellers in the world yeah it's true that Israel is one

of the biggest AR arms sellers we have been also selling a um all the

technology that can help you to deal with terrorists I mean the whole world

is dealing with terrorist activity so the market is

big I would say that 80% of the technology that we have developed in

Israel is not top secret it's something that you can share

with other ER organizations mainly H security agencies

and armies H for instance the most most common technology that we have developed

here is the Iron Dome and now we can sell iron do to the

whole world with a wave of its innovative wand Raphael has developed a

first of its kind counter rocket artillery mortar cram system with pinpoint accuracy interceptors against

asymmetric threats Iron Dome the Iron Dome is often used to

refer to all of these Israel's anti-missile interception systems together they make Israel a world leader

in anti-missile protection and are a showcase for Israel's weapons companies

who are Keen to promote how Cutting Edge and Innovative they are

aro3 the ARA system counters high altitude ballistic missiles and is made

by Israel Aerospace Industries II also makes the cafir jet

Heron drones and its own Jericho ballistic missiles they claim to offer comprehensive Solutions in all domains

since Russia's invasion of Ukraine II are marketing their interception systems

to European countries on us in 400 m exit right to find out more about

Israel's military industrial complex I'm going to meet security and intelligence expert Yosi Melman Israel from the

outset decid decided we have to build our own uh strong military industrial

complex that realization has been always in the mind of Israel we have to be uh

on top of our enemies from the scientific technological point of view

Israel's been developing a range of new technologies and weapons certain kind of

Robotics certain kinds of drones quadcopters explain a bit about what you understand is being used there has been

a major shift in the focus of the Israeli Industries if 30 40 years ago Israel

industries were still selling rifles pistols ammunition

nowadays they have moved to more advanced technological equipment the logic is

very positive to try to minimize Israel's own casualties it's safer to

first move into the tunnels with a robot rather than sending your foood soldiers

a formation of autonomous aerial and ground systems can provide unprecedented ISR capabilities to units on the

Tactical Edge from 3D Legion X is the integrated combat system for controlling

autonomous robotic vehicles and drones all made by Elbert Israel's largest

private weapons producer Andy Legion is maximizing now worth nearly 10 billion

Elbert promotes itself as leading the world in Automation and

Robotics and this technical Mastery is key to how Israel has governed Gaza

Israel directly occupied Gaza from 1967 to 2005 when the Israeli Army and

settlers withdrew but Israel retained de facto control over the fundamentals of the territory Power Water who could

enter and leave how far fishermen could go from the shore and even how many calories people have to eat eat every

day the depth of this control was constantly updated with technology in

2021 defense minister Benny gance launched a smart fence stuffed with the

latest tech including tunnel detection

equipment in 2021 Israel unveiled a huge amount of new

technology around Gaza theyd spent billions of dollars they claimed that it was going to keep Israel safe was going

to keep Palestinians essentially in Gaza what exactly was being put in place

around that time well all sorts of

equipment Israel surrounded Gaza with all these Technologies facial

recognition hacking telephones visual intelligence from

drones reconnaissance flights reconnaissance balloons Israel had the phone numbers of

many Hamas members and not only Kamas members also innocent people that information came from bugging and

listening and Observatory equipment so so Gaza was surrounded by the equipment

and Israel believed that they can control the population and they control

above all Hamas the domestic security service shinb and the military

intelligence mistake they almost adored worshiped

technology but on October the 7th 2023 as part of a highly coordinated

offensive hummus drones attacked the watchtowers disabling the CCTV and

automated guns with few soldiers on the border the Army claims they were effectively blun

to what unfolded Hamas Fighters quickly overran

multiple bases which were sparsely manned and not

prepared it is said that thousands of hamus Fighters and other Palestinians broke out of Gaza by land sea and air it

was the most deadly single day in Israel's history Israel claims that 1,200 people

were killed nearly 800 of them civilians and most of them Israeli and that

another 250 were taken back to Gaza as hostages according to Hamas and

international organizations these numbers have been

inflated hamas's attack begs the question of how this multi-billion dollar smart fence armed with radar CCTV

and surveillance drones could miss an assault that took years to plan and rehearse

so I'm on my way to see Israel Z who's a former Israeli General and he used to

actually had the Gaza command for the Israeli Army and o on October 7 he

grabbed a gun from his home near Tel Aviv and went down to near the Gaza

border to try to as he says kill Hamas terrorists and rescue hostages so let's

go see him explain what happened to you on October 7th I've learned that I'm still good even with the pistol I had a

chance to to to rescue quite a few people you know some of them were hiding

in the area that theas control what do you think as far as we know went

horribly wrong everything it's the system collaps I

think Israel took one step too far rely in too much on technology which in area

like Gaza was very convenient to put all those visual toys you know and and it

gave the feeling that we are protected but maybe it wasn't the technology that

failed we know that IDF soldiers monitoring Gaza reported increased Hamas

activity in the months leading up to October the 7th we saw the Maneuvers we

saw the preparations we have listened to the plans we have photoed the terrorist

coming I know but for sure that in the Israeli Secret Service and the Israeli

intelligence Army intelligence service they uh information was there before

October 7 before October yes but nobody thought that it's really going to

happen everybody thought you know the Kamas would not there maybe they do a terror act but not such an operation the

biggest failure starts from the higher level of command which actually refuses

to to to believe or or to see it coming despite the supposed failure of

the technology to stop the October the 7th attack 2024 is predicted to be the

best year yet for Israel's arms industry and while the Israeli Army may

have been slow to react on October the 7 they quickly announced their intention to unleash hell on

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Gaza what Israel calls the swords of iron War has resulted in unprecedented

levels of death and destruction [Music] I've come to one of the few places in

Israel where you can see that with your own eyes I'm in the Israeli town of sto

and behind me is Gaza we're pretty much as close as we

can get all these religious Jewish people who were behind me gathered as the sun

is going down many of them actually want to settle Gaza occupy Gaza build settlements in Gaza and and they're

treating it almost like a family get together they're are kids they're having fun they're smiling taking photos it's

pretty surreal seeing Gaza here and knowing

what's happened since October 7 the mass destruction the mass killing it's yeah pretty

overwhelming the war has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians and seen more

than 80% of gaza's buildings rendered unusable it might look like random

destruction but Israel would claim these are all valid targets and they're all generated by the latest Innovation from

unit 88,200 a new system powered by artificial

intelligence I've come to Tel Aviv to meet the investigative team who first r red her AI is being used in Gaza some in

the military felt that the systems that existed were not giving them in previous Wars enough targets talk a little bit

about what that meant practically in previous war what is called in Israel

the target Bank was very swiftly was was

empty previously they would produce 200 300 targets a year now they

can produce sitting an hour the AI targeting systems are only possible

because as we've seen Israel collects data on every aspect of Palestinian life

the system called The Gospel also takes in historical and Geographic data to generate infrastructure locations that

the AI thinks are probably linked to hamus these include tactical targets

like military bases and tunnels but there's another category called Power targets that include residential Towers

and Civic buildings like schools and medical centers an alifer

hospital they are being hit in order to create a psychological effect on the

gazin pushing them to go against Hamas of course this didn't happen the Israeli Army says Al shifer

housed the Hamas command and control center the bombing of it resulted in over a thousand people being killed

injured or disappeared 25,000 people in the surrounding area were also

displaced Israel never provided evidence that it had found the command and control

center to identify individual Hamas members unit 88,200 created lavender

this analyzes the key Behavior traits of active Hamas oper where they go who they talk to who was

in their phone contacts and then looks for anyone in Gaza with similar

characteristics what are they talking about what kind of words they're

using uh all these kind of things you create a list of possible members of

Hamas from the very low level or even people that are not really part of the

military ring this is basically basically a death

list once you are there you are Lely to meet

tet the alel neighborhood known as the backbone of Gaza was hid in December

2023 the Israeli Army said it was because there were Hamas operatives concealing themselves there the entire

area was devastated what the AI generates is not

facts but targets with a statistically probable link to Hamas despite this the systems have led

to another change a rise in the acceptable level of Civilian

deaths prior to this war a very senior uh Hamas uh

Commander there was a collateral damage of let's say five maximum 10 person in

this war it was decided that for very Junior

Hamas militant the collateral damage decided was between 15 and

20 his family and his neighbors could be killed in order to kill

him and if it's a senior Hamas militant then the numbers over 100

sometimes 300 and we know it happened

I wanted to know what someone close to the Israeli military thought about this use of

AI it's really kind of a big step you know forward in terms of intelligence

and also decision making because it's doing the right selection and and put in

front of the decision maker much better and clearer picture in order to take

decision we did of course ask former General ziv about claims Israel and its AI systems were perpetrating a genocide

in Gaza his response the standard line that the Israeli Army is the most moral

in the world so AI became a big factor in in in this whole component of Intel

decision making command and control uh of the modern fight storing

surveillance on an entire population generates a vast amount of data enter Google on Amazon who have been building

cloud services and data farms in Israel since 2021 under a deal called project

Nimbus After the War Began the Army's Computing division said they were collecting so much data that to move

some of it onto the civilian Cloud A200 is using a cloud service by

Amazon to storage huge amount of information about people in Gaza and

that the This Cloud was used at least to help some of the attacks I've been

looking at how Israel's Army and Tech sector benefit from conflict in Palestine but could it also be true of

other countries and multinationals to find out more I met with Paul bigar the founder of a billion

dooll tech company Google's motto used to be don't be evil and it seems like a

lot of these big tech companies Amazon Google and others have no issue with working with Israel in fact they're

often expanding their contracts do they not care about the reputational damage fundamentally they're about making money

getting that cloud Revenue um you may have started as a $600 million contract

but it is uh expanding massively over the years so we are talking uh at the

stage where uh where they may be getting billions and possibly tens of billions of dollars from Israel via project

Nimbus they're also setting themselves up as the de facto people to talk to

when your government needs to uh needs to scale so there's a lot more governments that are a lot larger than

uh than Israel and Google wants to be first in line for those contracts and more importantly they've realized there

aren't any reputational consequences for what it

does so it's not just Israel that uses the Palestinians to test their products on it's actually the whole

world and there's no greater arena for testing weapons than a live

War the iron sting is a guided mortar marketed as a Precision weapon the iron

sting is so precise that it can even hit a specific room without causing damage to other rooms in the same

building this is its first use in [Music]

battle and looks like it might have damaged more than one room

at least two Israeli companies have made drones stable enough to handle

gunfire this is elbert's bird of prey seen here accompanying an armored bulldozzer into

battle eyewitnesses in Gaza say these drones with guns are proving terrifying

and deadly

arms experts have told us the last moment of the life of Hamas leader Yaya sinoa were likely filmed on one of these

drones his final Act to throw a stick at

it talk about some of those things in Gaza that Israel has been doing militarily since October 7

and why you think that might be appealing to other nations everybody knows that that you know Israel is very

advanced in in their technology but definitely after such a such a war in

Gaza when when people see the demonstration in real life and it's working uh it creates uh you know the

needs and the understanding how crucial those things are and and how critical for others to to hold it and to have it

now Israel has physical access to Gaza they're rolling out many of the surveillance techniques used in the West

Bank unit 88,200 is giving soldiers and drones AI enabled surveillance

technology to search for anyone linked to Hamas or other rebel groups the system relies on technology from corite

an Israeli video Analysis company and the Israeli Army is also using Google photos which can identify people from

just a fraction of their face we are basically speaking about about a system where the government

where the private sector producing and exporting the facial recognition technique they test those Technologies

in Palestine in the occupied Palestinian territory so occupying people is

profitable because it's not only you take the resources of the land now we

are speaking about digital occupation where also your data is a new resource

to develop a new technologies and to start selling that worldwide to profit

from oppressing other people but perhaps the most advanced and gamechanging

weapon being used in the Gaza war is the targeting of human beings by artificial

intelligence so do you think that tools like lavender the gospel there's a decent chance of Israel could

potentially be selling those tools to other militaries I think it's a very

fair possibility that Israel will will sell it and this is I think one of the

reasons they allowed our story to be published just explain a bit what you mean by that H you have to file any

report that relates to the military the military censorship and they can allow

disallow I suspect there were people in Israel who wanted the world to know that

they have very very sophisticated AI surveillance methods

that can collect and kill being here again I've seen how physical

barriers and high technology divide this land in a way many human rights organizations call

apartheid I've seen how this has allowed Israel to create World leading surveillance and arms Industries who

export their products globally in the next episode I'm heading off to some of

Israel's top customers I'll be asking if Israel is just selling its technology or

if they're also exporting something else the ideology behind the occupation of

Palestine [Music]

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