[News] Dell supplied tech used in Israeli kill-list programs

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  Dell supplied tech used in Israeli kill-list programs: Report

The technology company is one of many 'entwined in the system of 
occupation, apartheid, and genocide' in Palestine

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JUL 24, 2025 - 
https://thecradle.co/articles/dell-supplied-tech-used-in-israeli-kill-list-programs-report

(Photo credit: Dell Technologies)

Dell Technologies enjoys deeper ties with the Israeli military than 
previously known, including enabling Israeli soldiers to target and kill 
Palestinian civilians using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, 
the/Electronic Intifada/ reported 
<https://electronicintifada.net/content/dells-complicity-israels-genocide/50824>on 
24 July.

In January 2023, the US-based multinational won a $150 million tender 
from Israel’s Defense Ministry to supply servers and IT infrastructure 
to the Israeli army, other security bodies, and the ministry itself.

The deal included services provided by Dell subsidiaries VMware and EMC 
Israel Advanced Information Technologies, which offered both technology 
and training to Israeli military units.

According to the watchdog group WhoProfits.org, Dell is also involved in 
occupation-linked initiatives such as Israel’s National Cyber Park in 
the Negev desert, a joint government-industry-academia project 
explicitly designed to advance military cyber capabilities.

However, internal documents obtained by the/Electronic Intifada/ reveal 
a deeper level of complicity than previously reported. These documents 
show that Dell technology is actively used in Israeli military 
operations involving artificial intelligence, including tools allegedly 
responsible for mass surveillance and automated targeting of Palestinians.

Among the systems supported by Dell infrastructure are “The Gospel,” an 
AI program that generates infrastructure targets; “Lavender,” which 
produces algorithm-driven kill lists; and “Where’s Daddy,” a tool used 
to track individuals and bomb them once they return home.

Dell’s rugged AI-powered laptops are reportedly used by Israel’s elite 
Unit 8200 cyberwarfare unit, while its servers and networking hardware 
support facial recognition systems developed by the Israeli firm 
AnyVision, which is deployed widely at checkpoints across the occupied 
Palestinian territories.

Beneficiaries of Dell’s technologies include the Golani Brigade – 
implicated in the killing of 15 paramedics in Rafah in April 2024 – the 
Flotilla 13 naval unit, and the Israeli Air Force. Elbit Systems Land & 
C41, the communications arm of the Israeli arms giant, also receives 
Dell equipment.

Dell’s ties to the Israeli military stretch back nearly two decades.

In 2006, it provided 50,000 computers to the Israeli army. After merging 
with EMC Corporation in 2016, Dell absorbed a large R&D presence in 
Israel, which founder and CEO Michael Dell described as a “center of 
excellence.”

At a 2016 tech conference in Tel Aviv, Dell stated the company was 
“deeply committed to Israel” and later met with Israeli Prime Minister 
Benjamin Netanyahu, now wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) 
for war crimes in Gaza.

In January 2024, amid escalating violence in Gaza, Michael Dell posted a 
photo with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on social media, writing, 
“It’s an honor to stand with Isaac Herazog and Israel.”

Herzog’s comments blaming “an entire nation” in Gaza for the 7 October 
attacks were cited in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) interim 
ruling ordering Israel to halt genocidal acts.

Dell is also reportedly a major donor to Friends of the Israel Defense 
Forces (IDF), a US-based fundraising organization.

In a July 2025 report, 
<https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/forever-occupation-genocide-and-profit-special-rapporteurs-report-exposes>UN 
Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned the corporate complicity 
in Israel’s actions. “Corporate actors are deeply entwined in the system 
of occupation, apartheid, and genocide,” she wrote, highlighting how 
companies like Dell, Microsoft, and Palantir are enabling a 
“livestreamed genocide” through AI technologies and cloud infrastructure.

“Corporations cannot claim neutrality,” Albanese warned. “They are 
either part of the machinery of displacement – or part of dismantling it.”

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