A new report reveals how Palantir and Dataminr are embedded in the US-Israeli post-war plan for Gaza, using AI systems to shape security and civilian control.
US-based artificial intelligence companies Palantir and Dataminr are set to play a central role in shaping the post-war framework proposed for the Gaza Strip, a new report has revealed.
According to +972 Magazine, the companies have been integrated into the newly established so-called Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), a US-run operational hub in the southern occupied territories where Washington and Israeli occupation officials are coordinating the implementation of Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza.
Documents reviewed by +972 magazine indicate that a “Maven Field Service Representative” from Palantir, linked to the company’s battlefield analytics platform Project Maven, has been assigned to the CMCC. The hub, located about 20 kilometers from Gaza’s separation wall, opened in mid-October and currently hosts roughly 200 US military personnel.
Palantir's Project Maven is a controversial US Department of Defense program that uses AI, machine-learning, and integrated data (satellite imagery, drone and sensor data, communications metadata, etc.) to help detect and flag targets automatically.
Project Maven, which recently secured a $10 billion Pentagon contract for upgrades, integrates intelligence from satellites, drones, spy planes, intercepted communications, and online platforms into an AI-powered battlefield platform designed to accelerate decision-making, including airstrikes. Palantir executives have described the system as “optimizing the kill chain,” and it has previously been used in US attacks in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.
Critics argue that AI-enabled targeting workflows, such as those employed by the Israeli regime with support from Big Tech, have helped dramatically scale up killings and accelerate decisions about “who to target,” with minimal human oversight. Meanwhile, independent monitoring has found that a vast majority of Gaza genocide casualties are women and children.
For instance, the United Nations Human Rights Office reported that nearly 70 % of verified fatalities were women and children. In practical terms, this means entire families, including infants and the elderly, were often killed together, their homes turned into kill zones by strikes allegedly guided or enabled by AI-based targeting systems.
Many human-rights experts warn that this combination, militarized AI, surveillance infrastructure, and a permissive policy for civilian harm, has turned Gaza into something resembling a “testing ground” for what an AI-powered war looks like: fast, automated, and devastating for noncombatants. (more...)
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