CAMERA editor Shlomi Ben-Meir questions the evidence for “NAZA’s” allegation that Israel intentionally killed tens of thousands of Gaza civilians. He has not seen the unreleased film; he cites Yuval Abraham’s reporting and 24 unnamed intelligence sources.
Ben-Meir says Abraham’s reports about the AI systems Gospel, Lavender and “Where’s Daddy?” did not verify claims about civilian-damage allowances against military orders and specific strikes; he also says Abraham did not establish what became of Gospel’s recommendations after human review. He cites West Point’s Lieber Institute, which described Gospel and Lavender as decision-support tools rather than autonomous weapons, with human decision-makers judging proportionality for each strike.
Ben-Meir contrasts the film with the Times’ December 2024 investigation, based on interviews with more than 100 soldiers and officials, military records and satellite imagery. The Times reported that the IDF raised its preplanned-strike allowance from zero to five civilians to 20 on Oct. 7, 2023, lowered it to 10 on Nov. 5 and required special approval for almost every strike by late January 2024. It said a limit of 500 civilian casualties applied per day for two days, not per strike; no documented strike killed 500, and the IDF said none was planned or approved.
