**“Where Is Daddy?”

How AI Turned Family Homes into Target Practice**

Welcome to the future of warfare — where algorithms do the thinking, lawyers do the justifying, and families do the dying.

In this brave new age, bombs no longer fall randomly. No, that would be barbaric. Today, death is data-driven, AI-assisted, and ethically laundered through buzzwords like precision, efficiency, and security.

And the star of this technological circus?

A system chillingly nicknamed: “Where’s Daddy?”

Yes. That’s real.

Step 1: Let the Algorithm Decide Who Looks Killable

According to investigative reporting by Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call, the Israeli military has relied on an AI system known as Lavender to generate massive lists of Palestinians flagged as “suspected militants.”

How does Lavender decide?

Not through trials.
Not through warrants.
Not through verified intelligence.

But through pattern recognition, metadata, phone usage, social connections, and behavioral assumptions — the kind of data science Silicon Valley uses to recommend shoes, now repurposed to recommend death.

Human Rights Watch confirms that such digital systems assign suspicion scores based on vast but unreliable datasets — a process that is inherently error-prone and biased, especially in a besieged population under surveillance.

Thousands of names. Minimal human review. Efficiency achieved.

Progress!

Step 2: Track the “Suspect” — Preferably When He’s Home

Enter “Where’s Daddy?”

Once Lavender flags a person, this second system allegedly tracks their mobile phone location and alerts operators when the person enters their family home.

Why the home?

Because, according to intelligence sources quoted in the investigation, it’s easier to strike someone when they are not on the battlefield.

Translation:
They’re asleep.
They’re unarmed.
They’re surrounded by civilians.

Human Rights Watch notes that mobile phone location data is imprecise and unsuitable for life-and-death targeting decisions, yet it has reportedly been used to cue strikes anyway.

But hey — who needs accuracy when you have confidence?

Step 3: Call It “Precision” and Press Launch

This is where the magic happens.

A machine says: Target is home.
A human glances at the screen.
A bomb is dropped.

The family disappears.

And the press release later explains it all with comforting phrases like:

“High-value target”
“Operational necessity”
“Collateral damage”

Because when an algorithm helps choose the timing, suddenly mass civilian death becomes a technical side effect, not a moral catastrophe.

Human Rights Watch has warned that such systems risk violating international humanitarian law, particularly the principles of distinction and proportionality — the basic rules meant to prevent exactly this scenario.

But rules are old-fashioned. AI is modern.

Why This Isn’t Just “Technology Gone Wrong”

Let’s be very clear:

This is not a bug.
This is not an accident.
This is not “unfortunate misuse.”

This is design logic.

A system that:

Mass-produces targets
Tracks them digitally
Prefers moments of domestic presence
Accepts civilian death as tolerable

Is not a defensive tool.

It is automation of moral abdication.

UN experts have warned that using AI in this way risks turning warfare into algorithmic extermination, where accountability dissolves into code and responsibility is outsourced to machines.

The Most Honest Part Is the Name

Let’s pause on the name again: “Where’s Daddy?”

Not Where’s the combatant?
Not Where’s the threat?
Not Where’s the weapon?

Daddy.

A word that assumes a home.
A family.
Children nearby.

It is perhaps the most truthful label of this entire operation — accidentally honest in a war otherwise drowning in euphemisms.

Conclusion: The Future We’re Being Sold

We are told this is the future of war:

Smarter
Cleaner
More precise

But Gaza shows us the truth.

AI doesn’t make war humane.
It makes killing faster, easier, and psychologically distant.

It allows people to die not because someone chose to kill them — but because a system suggested it, a screen confirmed it, and a bureaucracy approved it.

And the world watches.

Livestreamed.
Documented.
Scrolled past.

Because nothing says civilization like witnessing a massacre in real time — and calling it innovation.

Key Sources

+972 Magazine / Local Call investigations into Israeli AI targeting systems
Human Rights Watch, Questions and Answers: Israeli Military’s Use of Digital Tools in Gaza
UN Special Rapporteurs on AI, warfare, and civilian protection

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