1/ Since March 2025 Airwars has documented a number of alleged civilian harm incidents in Gaza in which a previously unknown munition was used by Israeli forces. Dozens of civilian casualties were reported. We have so far published three of these cases: bsky.app/profile/muni...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Having followed the AI industry for over a decade, which began as the extropian cult, I am so grateful to @edzitron.com for his brilliant break down of the AI bubble: "sold by career charlatans with their reputations laundered by a tech and business media." www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The ethical duty to refuse an unlawful order will become really important it seems ...

Spain prohibits transit of US military aircraft and vessels carrying arms, ammunition, or equipment destined for Israel through its bases at Rota (Cadiz) and Moron de la Frontera (Seville), sources familiar with the functioning of the US-Spain Joint Committee confirmed. www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/sp...

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT

"A study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that some types of wounds – such as burns or injuries to legs – were more common among civilians in Gaza than among US soldiers fighting in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“Reparations are not just about money; they are a formal recognition of the harm and a vital final step toward a full stop for survivors. When this crucial component is absent, the so-called ‘accountability process’ reveals itself as little more than an elaborate exercise in futility” aje.io/mf9pm7

@mariaressa.bsky.social ’s call at UNGA could not be more urgent. The time for AI self-regulation is over. 200 Nobel laureates, former heads of state, and industry experts just signed a statement: "We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks"

Brave Israeli army refusers defy harsher backlash to protest genocide Facing longer prison terms and greater public hostility, a new cohort of conscientious objectors insist refusal is both a moral duty and an act of hope. www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

critical intervention by Or Bassok - "banality of evil in the Gaza war is not embodied in malicious individuals but in routine work of jurists who authorized orders for air strikes that have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians while relying on IHL." www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

"The war in Gaza demands a fundamental rethinking of long-held assumptions in international law including whether military lawyers actually serve to constrain the military from committing war crimes, or whether they make such crimes easier to commit by granting them a stamp of legality & legitimacy"

Darren Byler has detailed Silicon Valley's key role in his 2021 book, In the Camps. His interviews with Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Hui who have disappeared in these camps are chilling. Well worth reading! globalreports.columbia.edu/books/in-the...

"[T]his article addresses how the law is being used, discursively, to make ethical & moral judgements about battlefield practices ... by employing dehumanising language to justify the mass killings of Palestinians in Gaza. For the term 'savage' implies a legal/moral judgement ...'"

Pentagon Official: Trump Boat Strike Was a Criminal Attack on Civilians A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law. theintercept.com/2025/09/05/p...

📽️ Did you miss this webinar? Watch the launch of a new report by Laura Bruun and Marta Bo on ‘Bias in Military #AI and Compliance with International Humanitarian Law’. 📕 Read the report ➡️ doi.org/10.55163/NLW... Watch the recording ⬇️ youtu.be/RDmFudu0oiQ?...

🚨🚨“We are therefore ready to move ahead towards negotiations.” #CCWUN closes with a joint statement from 42 states affirming that the Chair’s rolling text discussed this week can form the basis of treaty negotiations on #KillerRobots.

The narrative of AI glory is carefully crafted with enormous amounts of $$. I listen to an interview with Joe Lonsdale (Palantir & 8VC) where he says "I’ve been fighting in DC for 20 years now, we know everyone, we have people on the ground, you know, we have to, it’s our job to protect ourselves ..

Like the laws of war, the 🇮🇱 gov distorts moral lesser evil arguments to justify atrocities in #Gaza. That "extensive & wanton destruction ... was perpetrated for the benefit of its victims is absurd & obscene." Strong words by @eitandi.bsky.social via @ejiltalk.bsky.social

🤖 “Lavender.” “Gospel.” “Where’s Daddy.” AI systems generating kill lists in #Gaza. Hear Visualizing Palestine's Nasreen Abd Elal + Journalist Meron Rapoport unpack this on our new podcast. 🎧 listen on our #Substack: stopkillerrobots.substack.com/p/dehumanisa... #BanKillerRobots

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Israeli military undertook ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe. h/t @rikdelhaas.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A quarter of a century on from its advocacy by the likes of Ronfeldt and Aquilla, the mode of chaoplexic warfare I described in my first book still remains the unfulfilled horizon of the military imaginary, always just around the corner yet perpetually deferred.

Devastating account of -the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza -our collective moral failure -applicable legal obligations right NOW by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal & @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...

"Those of us who seek to conceive an end to endless war must somehow learn to challenge embedded American fixations and fantasies, as well as habits of mind and heart. Success is a long shot, but the stakes are too high not to risk it."

Significant 🔽 If it is Israel's position that there may be starvation in Gaza but that Gazans are not being starved *intentionally*, this mirrors Israel's position with regard to civilian deaths from kinetic attacks. I wrote on the int law implications of this here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

‘Double tap’ air strikes: 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, a @972mag.com investigation reveals. www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...

A handful of permanently online mil-influencers pushes the narrative that "from a military angle" Israel's conduct in #Gaza is exemplary. This creates a starkly wrong idea. My admittedly anecdotal interactions with US/UK military personnel suggest they are largely appalled about Israeli ops.

Since the start of the Gaza war, leading Israeli legal scholars have written numerous letters raising concerns over grave international law violations. We are publishing these letters for the first time in a collected English edition, with a summary by Kai Ambos. verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

I have written about the troubling consequences of this, available at the link in my pinned post: "The AI 'offered real-time recommendations to dynamic targeting teams'...The goal was to create a 'resilient, data-driven, and automated kill chain across operational and tactical levels.'"

"[A]s difficult and expensive as it will be for US allies to escape the enshittification of American power—it will be much harder for Americans to do so, as that power is increasingly turned against them."

BBC Verify dug into Israel's widespread demolitions in #Gaza. Main legal points: ✖️It isn't plausible that every case is covered by imperative military necessity. Destruction of property in occupied territory without imperative mil necessity is a war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

I was hoping for something more nuanced and interesting (perhaps my bad), but this coverage is neither and ultimately amounts to a crudely packaged PR piece for the usual suspects (Anduril in particular), with all the typical talking points and a horrifying lack of concern about civilian deaths.

The DoD will now be using Musk‘s chatbot which went full-on Nazi, referred to itself as „MechaHitler“ and spewed vile antisemitism and racism. What could go wrong.

"The bill defines 'autonomous' as "a system designed to applu artificial intelligence [...] to accurately detect, identify, classify, and track items of interest in real time [...] without the active engagement of personnel or continuous human command or control.'"1/ theintercept.com/2025/07/09/t...

Eyal Benvenisti now also recognizes that Israeli government is pursuing policies amounting to war crimes. www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...

"Military AI models are built according to the same logic of scale as their civilian prototypes. They are engineered to recommend people & places for aerial bombardment & routes for ground raids by culling & synthesizing troves of information at a speed our rotting human brains cannot comprehend."

UN Special Rapporteurs act on behalf of the UN Human Rights Council and are protected by the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the UN (1946). Sanctions directed against the exercise of this mandate violate this protection and endanger the independence of UN human rights mechanisms.

There's been reports of small drones deployed by Israeli forces across Gaza, but what's most astounding here is the link between American crowd funding efforts to arm Israel's military and the targeting of civilians and civilian areas. From @972mag.com www.972mag.com/drones-grena...

Today 5pm BST! Don’t miss the hybrid event on “The Realities of Autonomous Weapons” with editors Thomas C. Bächle & Jascha Bareis & guest Lucy Suchman. Moderation @olamichalec.bsky.social. @itas.bsky.social @kit.edu @brisunipress.bsky.social 👉Free tickets: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bri...

It's out! The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social. We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Important piece showing rise in civilian casualties from #proliferation of #drones over past decade www.swissinfo.ch/eng/internat... @caatuk.bsky.social @airwars.bsky.social

My Reuters colleague Anthony Deutsch has the latest on the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"as a democratic nation, we will consider regulation of tests after the war – as soon as the war is over.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Insightful analysis: "A cumulative civilian harm assessment is also intrinsically linked to the core principle of reducing civilian suffering (which includes a ban on terrorizing civilians) coupled with the requirement to prevent unnecessary suffering, ... [continued below]

Very happy to see my invited article for Nature is out in the new issue. I wrote about computer vision, the AI surveillance industrial complex, and brilliant new research that shows just how deeply embedded the field of computer vision is in the surveillance pipeline. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

"'We reveal obfuscating language that allows documents to avoid direct mention of targeting humans, for example, by normalizing the referring to of humans as ‘objects’ to be studied w/o special consideration. Our results indicate the extensive ties b/w computer-vision research & surveillance,' ..."