Hundreds of Israeli technology experts are temporarily putting aside their jobs to help locate missing compatriots following the Hamas attack on October 7. At least 199 people were believed to be under the control of the armed group, according to Israel.
Karine Nahon, one of the initiative’s leaders, said volunteers are analyzing images, including videos posted online by Hamas, to help identify and locate more than a thousand people who are still missing. Any information obtained is passed on to Israeli authorities.
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Based in Tel Aviv, which is home to most of Israel’s technology and security sector, volunteers have created a makeshift command center where they use artificial intelligence and facial and voice recognition to help locate those who are missing after the attacks. sometimes through clothing or recognizable features.
“The government is currently counting on what is coming out of these rooms”, highlighted Nahon.
Photos of the missing Israelis hang on the walls of the command center, to remind volunteers of their mission.
“We try to understand the status of each of the missing people and we still have more than a thousand in that condition,” he said.
Hamas is now removing videos of the attacks posted online, suggesting it is aware that the images are being analyzed, Nahon added.
“Hamas is now deleting and removing the videos they have. There was a live stream in which they entered different rooms with massacred children and horrible images,” she pointed out.
“What they are doing now is removing the videos one by one, because they understand that we are basically monitoring and analyzing these videos,” he explained.
Source: CNN Brasil
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