29 April 2024

COULD EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES HAVE HELPED TO AVOID THE TRAGIC KILLING OF HUMANITARIAN WORKERS IN GAZA?

Larry Lewis and Daphné Richemond-Barak

The killing of seven employees of World Central Kitchen in Gaza is as deplorable as it was avoidable. A substantial body of research suggests that technology can mitigate civilian harm in war, particularly mistakes that result in the deaths of humanitarian workers, but unfortunately few of the solutions it points to have been implemented.

World Central Kitchen has been a key player assisting the population of Israel and Gaza since the outbreak of hostilities on October 7, 2023. It had just delivered one hundred tons of food to Gaza when seven of its workers (from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, along with one Palestinian staff member) were killed in an Israel Defense Forces strike.

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