Archive for July 23rd, 2025

23/07/2025

‘The Lesson from Gaza Is Clear: When AI-Powered Machines Control Who Lives, Human Rights Die’

Human Wrongs Watch

By CIVICUS*

Dima Samaro

CIVICUS discusses the military use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Gaza with Dima Samaro, a Palestinian lawyer and researcher, and director of Skyline International for Human Rights, a civil society organisation (CSO) that defends digital freedoms and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa.

Dima serves on multiple boards focused on civic space and surveillance issues, including Innovation for Change’s MENA Hub, the Surveillance in the Majority World Network and the VUKA! Solidarity Coalition, and volunteers with Resilience Pathways to help Palestinian CSOs counter Israeli efforts to restrict civic space and manipulate public narratives.

Gaza has become a testing ground for AI-powered warfare. Israel deploys systems such as Gospel and Lavender that produce thousands of strike recommendations based on alleged links to Hamas.

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23/07/2025

From Gaza, Where a House Once Stood

Human Wrongs Watch

By Rayya Almuheisen, Senior Communications Assistant  | The International Organization for Migration*

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Photo: IOM 2025

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23/07/2025

Gaza: United Nations’ Staff Now Fainting from Hunger, Exhaustion…

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Worrying alerts from United Nations staff in the Gaza Strip who have been fainting from hunger and exhaustion over the past 48 hours have increased fears for people’s survival in the devastated enclave, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday [. 

An UNRWA worker carries a young boy in Gaza. (file)
© UNRWA | An UNRWA worker carries a young boy in Gaza. (file)
 
“Doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarians, among them UNRWA staff, are hungryfainting due to hunger and exhaustion while performing their duties,” said Juliette Touma, Director of Communications with the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA. 

Speaking from Amman, she stressed that seeking food “has become as deadly as the bombardments”.

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