After Hamas’ October 7 attack, Israel rapidly integrated artificial intelligence into large-scale military operations, marking a turning point in modern warfare.
Following the Hamas massacre on October 7, in which more than 1,200 people were murdered, the Israel Defense Forces dramatically expanded the use of artificial intelligence across multiple operational domains.
According to foreign reports, these tools played a central role in targeted strikes against senior Hamas terrorists and in efforts to locate and rescue hostages.
Among the systems deployed were AI-supported facial recognition technologies capable of identifying partially covered or injured faces, as well as voice-analysis tools used to determine the location of terrorist targets. The IDF also made extensive use of advanced NLP (natural language processing) systems to scan, translate, and analyze massive volumes of Arabic-language posts, messages, and conversations from open sources.
