Israeli occupation forces are seen in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip on March 3, 2024. Photo: AP.
The American tech giant Google has worked “directly” with Israel and provided the regime with more access to AI services since the start of its genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, US media report.
Documents obtained by The Washington Post said Google employees “rushed” to provide the Israeli ministry of military affairs and the regime’s occupation forces with access to the company’s latest artificial intelligence technology from the early weeks of the Gaza war to beat out their rival, Amazon.
The US daily quoted a Google staffer as saying that Israel would “turn instead to Google’s cloud rival Amazon, which also works with Israel under the Nimbus contract,” if the company “didn’t quickly provide more access.”
The tech giant fired more than 50 staff members, who protested the company’s multibillion-dollar Nimbus project with the Israeli regime at its offices in New York and California, with some of them also being arrested during the demonstrations.
“The documents obtained by the Post do not indicate how Israel’s military used Google’s AI capabilities, which can be used for tasks such as automating administrative functions far from the front lines,” the daily newspaper added.
The Israeli regime was forced to agree to a ceasefire agreement with Hamas on Sunday, which put an end to more than 15 months of merciless aggression on the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Earlier in the month, the administration of former US President Joe Biden proposed to the Israeli regime an $8 billion arms deal as part of Washington’s unflinching support to the occupying entity’s genocidal war in Gaza.
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The deal, which was likely to be the last weapons sale Biden approved for Israel, came a few months after his administration okayed the sale of $20 billion in fighter jets and other military equipment to the regime despite worldwide demand for an arms embargo against Tel Aviv amid the long-running onslaught.
Washington, Israel’s biggest ally and weapons supplier, had repeatedly vetoed UN Security Council resolutions on a ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel’s brutal onslaught on the besieged territory, which started on October 7, 2023, killed more than 47,000 Palestinians and wounded nearly 112,000 others.
The toll continues to climb as families return to the ruins of their former homes following the ceasefire, searching for the bodies of loved ones left in the aftermath. The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that around 10,000 bodies are still unaccounted for beneath the rubble.
(PressTV)
