Israeli forces hit Gaza City
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report the Israeli army has struck the eastern part of the besieged area. It was not clear if there were any casualties. More details are awaited.
The continuous bombardment of Gaza City has razed the territory’s largest urban centre, killing dozens of people daily, destroying numerous residential buildings and schools, and forcing tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee to an unknown fate to the south, often while being attacked en route.
Since mid-August, when Israeli troops launched a new punishing assault on Gaza City, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recorded more than 400,000 movements from northern to southern Gaza, mainly to Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis.
Report finds ‘serious inaccuracies’ in Israeli army’s Gaza animations
A new investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, Viewfinder, Swiss broadcaster SRF, and Scotland-based news outlet, The Ferret, say several Israeli army animations – including one depicting alleged Hamas tunnels under Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital – were problematic.
“A months-long investigation … analysed 43 animations produced by the Israeli army since October 7 and found that many contain serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets – sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions,” +972 Magazine revealed.
The investigation, which includes interviews with a number of Israeli soldiers linked to the productions, found that more than half of the army’s animations contained 3D assets taken from third-party sources.
The report stated that “over 50 different third-party assets” were identified, which were replicated “hundreds of times across animations of sites ranging from Gaza to Iran”.
“A parking lot from Washington state, scans from a boat-building workshop in Scotland, and commercial storefront kits from the video game industry – all of these have been inserted, without credit, into animations presented as ‘illustrations’ of Hamas bunkers or Iranian weapons facilities,” they said.
It's only going to get worse as AI keeps getting better, just a tool for more lies and propaganda.
