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Palestinians wait to receive the bodies of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, at Al-Najjar Hospital, southern Gaza Strip, December 7, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians

Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed some 8,900 militants in its attacks on Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare, a joint investigation finds.

By Yuval Abraham August 21, 2025

Medics rush to rescue a Palestinian wounded at an aid site in northern Gaza City, June 17, 2025. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)

‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts

In the aftermath of bombings, the Israeli army routinely fires on Palestinian rescue workers, paramedics, and other civilians to prevent them from saving the wounded, an investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham July 24, 2025

Palestinians and Israelis protest against Netanyahu's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, Tel Aviv, June 6, 2020. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

Grappling with Jewish fears in a just Palestinian struggle

Recognizing Zionism’s settler-colonial nature shouldn’t prevent us from reimagining a collective Jewish existence in this land, or taking seriously the fears that are weaponized to justify Palestinian subjugation.

By Haggai Matar November 26, 2024

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Israeli soldiers from the 8717 Battalion of the Givati Brigade operating in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why human agency is still central to Israel’s AI-powered warfare

Following +972’s 'Lavender' exposé, international law and AI experts explain how Israel's top brass and global tech firms are implicated in the slaughter.

By Sophia Goodfriend April 25, 2024

Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

By Yuval Abraham April 3, 2024

Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in several location in the Gaza Strip, October 9, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

‘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.

By Yuval Abraham November 30, 2023

Palestinian medics evacuate a protester injured during the Great Return March in Gaza. April 20, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun / Activestills.)

You’re far more likely to be killed protesting in Gaza than firing a rocket

Not a single rocket has been fired into Israel from Gaza in over two months, yet since March 30 Israel has killed more Palestinians in Gaza than it did in the previous 16 months, during which time militants launched over 60 rockets and mortars. The Israeli army’s response to unarmed protests in the Gaza Strip…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man April 27, 2018

Palestinian protesters during the Gaza return march. April 20, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun / Activestills.org)

Israeli soldiers open fire on Gaza protesters fourth week in a row

Israeli forces reportedly kill at least four protesters and wound over 400 with live ammunition and tear gas during Gaza Return March demonstrations on Friday. By +972 Magazine Staff Israeli forces opened fire on protesters participating in the Great Return March on Friday for the fourth consecutive week. The Great Return March, which began on Land Day,…

By +972 Magazine April 20, 2018

Avi Benayahu. (photo: IDF Spokesperson Unit)

‘For the first time in history, Jews can take part in war from home’

Avi Benayahu, who served as IDF Spokesperson during both Operation Cast Lead and the Mavi Marmara incident, explains his worldview and tactics in a lecture obtained by +972 Magazine, including how he sent army officers pretending to be civilians onto foreign television news. Until Brigadier-General (ret.) Avi Benayahu was appointed to be the IDF Spokesperson…

By Noam Sheizaf July 21, 2015

Soldiers from the IDF's Egoz Reconnaissance Unit, which specializes in guerrilla warfare in southern Lebanon. (Illustrative photo: IDF Spokesperson/Flickr)

Israel sells its story on a new Lebanon war, and the ‘Times’ bites

If you’re going to publish ominous warnings portending the killing of scores of civilians, shouldn’t you verify the grounds and ask why? In an article published on the New York Times website today, Israel sells the author, Isabel Kershner, the pretense for its next war: its claims that Hezbollah has dramatically beefed up its military infrastructure along Israel’s…

By Noa Yachot May 13, 2015

Israelis take cover near a bus stop in a street in center Tel Aviv during a siren alarm as a rocket Is launched from Gaza strip, August 3, 2014. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

What if Hamas fired rockets at Britain?

When Israeli spokesmen defend the IDF’s actions in Gaza by asking what you would do if rockets rained down on your home, the example of Northern Ireland can serve as one response. By John Jackson Over the last weeks Israeli government spokesmen have provided cover across international TV and radio airspace for their military onslaught in…

By +972 Magazine August 30, 2014

Mourners fill the mosque during the funeral for 24 members of the Abu Jame' family, who were killed the previous day during an Israeli attack over the Bani Suhaila neighborhood of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, July 21, 2014. Reports indicate that 15 of the 24 killed were children of the Abu Jame' family.

PHOTOS: A Gaza funeral for 26 members of one family

In just one example of the ongoing Israeli tactic of targeting civilian homes, 26 members of the Abu Jame’ family, including 18 children, were killed in a single strike. Photos by: Anne Paq and Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org Text by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler Israeli attacks in Gaza have now killed more than 566 Palestinians as the death…

By Activestills July 21, 2014

Ruins of the home of Al Haddad family, which was destroyed by an a Israeli drone missile, in Al Shaja'ia neighborhood, Gaza City, July 12, 2014. The family of 25 people evacuated the building before the home was hit. (Photo: Basel Yazouri/Activestills.org)

The IDF doesn’t only aim at Hamas targets

Over a 160 people killed, entire neighborhoods which receive arbitrary warnings, entire families that have been bombed using hundreds of tons of explosives, shooting at a journalists’ car and hitting hospitals and schools. No, we do not only shoot at Hamas targets. (Translated from Hebrew by Sol Salbe) On Saturday evening, Hamas issued a warning,…

By Haggai Matar July 13, 2014