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<h1 class="gmail-">Dell supplied tech used in Israeli kill-list
programs: Report</h1>
<p class="gmail-">The technology company is one of many
'entwined in the system of occupation, apartheid, and
genocide' in Palestine</p>
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<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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<i> Electronic Intifada</i> </span><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/dells-complicity-israels-genocide/50824"
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style="background-color:transparent">reported</span></a><span
style="background-color:transparent"> on 24 July.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">In January
2023, the US-based multinational won a $150 million
tender from Israel\u2019s Defense Ministry to supply
servers and IT infrastructure to the Israeli army,
other security bodies, and the ministry itself.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">According
to the watchdog group WhoProfits.org, Dell is also
involved in occupation-linked initiatives such as
Israel\u2019s National Cyber Park in the Negev desert, a
joint government-industry-academia project
explicitly designed to advance military cyber
capabilities.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">However,
internal documents obtained by the<i> Electronic
Intifada</i> 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Among the
systems supported by Dell infrastructure are \u201cThe
Gospel,\u201d an AI program that generates infrastructure
targets; \u201cLavender,\u201d which produces algorithm-driven
kill lists; and \u201cWhere\u2019s Daddy,\u201d a tool used to
track individuals and bomb them once they return
home.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Dell\u2019s
rugged AI-powered laptops are reportedly used by
Israel\u2019s 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Beneficiaries
of Dell\u2019s technologies include the Golani Brigade \u2013
implicated in the killing of 15 paramedics in Rafah
in April 2024 \u2013 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Dell\u2019s
ties to the Israeli military stretch back nearly two
decades. </span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">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 \u201ccenter
of excellence.\u201d</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">At a 2016
tech conference in Tel Aviv, Dell stated the company
was \u201cdeeply committed to Israel\u201d and later met with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now
wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for
war crimes in Gaza.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">In January
2024, amid escalating violence in Gaza, Michael Dell
posted a photo with Israeli President Isaac Herzog
on social media, writing, \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to stand
with Isaac Herazog and Israel.\u201d</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Herzog\u2019s
comments blaming \u201can entire nation\u201d in Gaza for the
7 October attacks were cited in the International
Court of Justice\u2019s (ICJ) interim ruling ordering
Israel to halt genocidal acts.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">Dell is
also reportedly a major donor to Friends of the
Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a US-based fundraising
organization.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">In a July
2025 </span><a
href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/forever-occupation-genocide-and-profit-special-rapporteurs-report-exposes"
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style="background-color:transparent">report,</span></a><span
style="background-color:transparent"> UN Special
Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned the
corporate complicity in Israel\u2019s actions. \u201cCorporate
actors are deeply entwined in the system of
occupation, apartheid, and genocide,\u201d she wrote,
highlighting how companies like Dell, Microsoft, and
Palantir are enabling a \u201clivestreamed genocide\u201d
through AI technologies and cloud infrastructure.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:transparent">\u201cCorporations
cannot claim neutrality,\u201d Albanese warned. \u201cThey are
either part of the machinery of displacement \u2013 or
part of dismantling it.\u201d</span></p>
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