Machines that fight instead of soldiers… 5 techniques used by Israel in Gaza

The other side of Israeli technical superiority in the military field lies specifically in the excessive sensitivity of the occupying state to any major losses among its soldiers, which created an inherent reluctance to engage in direct, equal confrontations, which prompted the emergence of a military doctrine that relies mainly on machines, with the conviction that there is no need to To large numbers of soldiers on the ground as long as there are strong defense systems, and an army of robots, cameras, drones, sensors and machine guns that operate remotely (1).

This excessive reliance on the machine and trust in it was the biggest loophole that the Palestinian resistance realized and exploited to carry out its unprecedented attack on October 7. Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” came to prove the dangers of excessive reliance on technology in the military field and neglect of the human element. However, Israel appears to have continued to intensify its reliance on technology in its ground invasion of Gaza, despite the events of 75 days of difficult fighting in the streets of the city indicating that the occupation is engaged in… A war in which technological superiority alone is of no use.

robot “jaguar”

One of the main weaknesses in the Israeli occupation military system lies in that his regular forces The 173,000 active soldiers are far too weak to fight a multi-front war alone without the help of reserve forces, whose number represents three times that of the army with about 464,000 soldiers, and these forces, which consist mostly of young conscripts, cannot fight a long war without the economy being affected. The Israeli army, for several reasons, the most important of which is the army’s draining of talent from the labor market. To heal the rift, Israeli engineers have long worked to create an integrated army of killer robots to reduce dependence on soldiers (2) (3).

These robots fought alternative battles to the occupation on several hot fronts, the most notable of which was when Israel entrusted them with the task of removing the Hezbollah flag on the Lebanese border in June 2022. At that time, they did not dare to send their fighters for fear of repeating the scenario of 2006, when the party kidnapped two of its fighters. its soldiers, and finally pushed it to fight war A failure that ended in a painful defeat, as a result of which the Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff, and a number of senior officers in the Israeli army resigned. The occupation has been making desperate attempts since 2021 to provide the “Gaza Division” deployed on the borders of the Strip with the “Jaguar” combat robot, to replace the soldiers along the border, as the robot can alone patrol the fence, clash and injure fighters from a distance, and destroy itself if it is captured. (4).

But even before the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation proved that this robot failed in its tasks, Israeli officers admitted to the Hebrew “Wala” website that the project is not proceeding according to what was planned, and that it faces many obstacles. The occupation has another, more advanced version that carries cameras and is equipped with advanced technologies such as radar and motion sensing systems, and the occupation is currently using it to discover tunnels built by the resistance. The tasks of the robots are to move inside the tunnels, draw a map of them and determine their locations, without sending soldiers into them, as the occupation policy stipulates not to send its soldiers to confront the underground resistance, as the resistance has the advantage of attacking in narrow corridors and maneuvering in mined and poorly ventilated corridors (5).

“gospel” matrix

About four months before the “Al-Aqsa Flood”, the Israeli newspaper “Yedioth Ahronoth” conducted an interview with the former Chief of Staff of the occupation army, “Aviv Kochavi”, an officer and technician who completed his graduate studies at Harvard University, where the man explained how Israel changed its military doctrine to confront the resistance. Palestinian (6). Kochavi said that the occupation had to find a new way to deprive the resistance of its strengths, protect the occupation soldiers, and avoid movement in the streets.

Meanwhile, Israel already had an entire unit of soldiers supported by artificial intelligence capabilities, through matrix-like programs, processing huge amounts of data at breakneck speed, and translating them into actionable goals. The occupation had previously tried this array in the “Saif al-Quds” battle in 2021, and the result was that the device created 100 new targets every day of the war, while the intelligence was producing 50 targets in Gaza within a year, which effectively confined the war between an Israeli machine and a Palestinian resistance ( 7).

This technology has been used again in the current war with greater capabilities. The occupation was able to deploy an electronic platform that works with artificial intelligence called “Gospel”. The matrix holds data on 30-40 thousand resistance fighters in Gaza. Once they are identified from the footage obtained via drones and cameras in armored vehicles, the intelligence information is translated into attack targets, and then moves on. The planes followed, which explains the doubling of Israeli military operations compared to its previous confrontations with the Gaza Strip. So they agreed For outgoing numbers Regarding the occupation army, air strikes targeted about 15,000 targets during only 35 days of the war, and while this high-tech technology contributed to doubling the capabilities of the occupation army, at the same time it led to a disaster with large numbers of civilian casualties, as the number of martyrs so far exceeded 20. One thousand martyrs, more than 52 thousand wounded, in addition to the displacement of about two million people.

JDAM smart missiles

In the early days of the United States' invasion of Iraq in March 2003, American aircraft used JDAM bombs, a type of smart bomb that contains a guidance system that can be installed on the bomb to improve its accuracy, and works with GPS, to precisely strike military targets and infrastructure. Larger. Although Baghdad already possessed advanced jamming devices obtained from Russia, this technology allows bombs and missiles to track their targets from the starting point, and the possibility of hitting them, albeit with less accuracy, even when jamming their global positioning system. When the Ukraine war broke out in February 2022, this technology was at the top of the military aid sent by the United States to help Kiev strike Russian military targets and make the counterattack successful, which was actually able to disrupt the advance of the Russian army (8) (9).

Since the outbreak of the “Al-Aqsa Flood”, Washington has sent to the occupation more than 5,000 “JDAM” guidance devices, and in addition to their accuracy, they are considered cheap, and then Tel Aviv excessively used this technology in its raids, which prompted Amnesty International to urge the United States to Stopping the supply of this weapon to the occupation. It also documented the use of this type of technology to target civilians through direct or indiscriminate attacks, in what is considered war crimes, especially since it was used previously in the Battle of “Saif al-Quds” in 2021 with the same degree of ferocity and violence (10) (11) ).

Israel has a smarter technology to intercept Palestinian missiles: the “Knowledge Well” program, which is a robot that receives data, tracks the missiles launched by the resistance, and is able to analyze them through detailed information that includes the locations from which they were launched and their firing rates, and then provides predictions of the locations of future attacks. Until the Israeli air defenses intercept it through missile defense systems, such as Iron Dome or David’s Sling (12). However, the occupation does not appear to be able to achieve that goal, because Hamas and the resistance’s missiles are distributed in a way that makes it impossible to know the location of each launch pad, which makes determining the locations of all the missiles a waste of time and resources, and the structure of the missiles is designed so that they can operate independently of the command systems. And control, it only needs a remote control for the missile launcher.

Storm cloud drones

Hours after the strike on Israeli intelligence due to the “Al-Aqsa Flood”, which resulted in the taking of about 250 prisoners who were taken by the resistance to unknown places inside the Gaza Strip, the occupation rushed to call for help from its American and European allies to obtain short-range reconnaissance drones for intelligence missions with the aim of… Identifying the locations of prisoners in the Strip. Israel has already received a first batch of 100 aircraft, before receiving new batches equipped with face and building recognition technology, and “SLAM” technology for drawing a three-dimensional map (13).

Because the Gaza Strip is considered a dangerous place for the occupation army, one month before the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, the occupation forces developed a new type of march that they called “storm clouds” or “lightning.” This march quickly entered service during the ground operation, and its mission lies in This small weapon helps keep the occupation soldiers out of the line of fire, in addition to providing intelligence information to the ground forces that helps them penetrate the heart of the Strip without being targeted, and discover the presence of resistance elements, whether from tunnels or on top of buildings, as accurate information is transmitted to both the Air Force and the Division. Military intelligence and ground forces are on the ground to assist them, enabling targets to be struck quickly when they are discovered (14).

But in contrast to its clear efficiency in surveying exposed terrain from the sky, drone technology is unable to solve the tunnel problem, and the occupation has repeatedly failed to direct it to discover resistance hideouts. The drones below face an environment full of obstacles, as they can be easily disabled, because they rely on the global positioning system or satellites designated for navigation. They do not operate underground, and therefore the occupation army loses contact with them as soon as they are out of sight (15).

Jamming systems

Following the technical and intelligence strike on the concrete wall of the heavily fortified Gaza envelope barrier on the 7th of last October, when factions launched a surprise attack from the air and over the fortifications, using cheap drones and simple parachutes; Israel realized that it was facing an intractable problem that must be resolved immediately, especially since the most recent resistance marches were of the “type” type.Al-Zawari“The suicide bomber is capable of carrying explosive warheads and hitting its targets accurately. It is characterized by its small size and small thermal signature, which enables it to approach the target without being detected, which puts the entire air defense systems in the face of a crisis. Although Israel already possesses systems dedicated to dealing with drones, it is unable to Providing protection for large, vast areas. According to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, the only way to shoot down drones is to jam them and disrupt communications between them and their operators (16).

Israel has not yet been able to prevent Hamas from using its drones, but it has intensified its GPS jamming operations with the aim of preventing and disrupting any possible new attack, whether by Hamas or Hezbollah. While this technology can confuse the resistance weapons, and make targets on the ground appear out of place, which makes the plane or precisely guided missile miss the accuracy of its hit; The matter is not without risks for civilian aircraft, which become vulnerable, especially since it was noted during the war that civilian aircraft flying near the Mediterranean Sea disappear from sight over many parts of the territories occupied by the regime, which prompted Israel to direct pilots to use alternative systems. (17).

The biggest dilemma of the occupation’s use of jamming technology lies in increasing the potential risks to Israeli non-military targets, especially since the resistance missiles previously used the Global Positioning System to strike military targets, which means that in light of the range that Hamas missiles currently enjoy, it is no longer possible to predict In any spot the missiles will fall, and the number of wounded and dead will likely increase, which is the most prominent criticism directed at this technology inside Israel.

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