The Israeli army is using cloud storage and artificial intelligence services provided by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to commit war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as shown by a +972 Magazine report published on 5 August.

Israeli Colonel Racheli Dembinsky confirmed publicly for the first time on 10 July that the army is using cloud storage and artificial intelligence services provided by consumer tech giants at a conference entitled “IT for IDF” in Rishon Lezion, the Tel Aviv-based publication reports.

The “exponential capacity” of Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud system gives the Israeli military the ability to have “endless storage” for holding intelligence on almost “everyone” in Gaza, +972 says.

This intelligence has assisted Israel in carrying out assassinations and airstrikes that have killed civilians, the magazine added. Israeli airstrikes have killed tens of thousands of people in Gaza, the majority women and children, since 7 October.