Researchers and rights groups document that Israeli authorities are using AI-enabled surveillance, notably a Rafael product called ImiSight, to scan Palestinian lands and accelerate home demolitions and forced evictions in the Naqab and the occupied West Bank. PalDigital, Peace Now and Kerem Navot link the tool to a sharp rise in demolitions: an 80% increase in Area C and occupied East Jerusalem when comparing 2010-2022 with 2023-2025, averaging 966 razed buildings annually in 2023-25 and 1,288 structures destroyed between January and September 2025 alone. ImiSight reportedly surveyed over 10,700 sq km in the Naqab, contributing to the eviction of more than 2,600 Bedouin citizens, while an Israel Land Authority enforcement unit set up in April 2025 now operates in the West Bank.
The piece details how AI is combined with faster, on-orbit edge computing, settler-run ground patrols, drones and online registries to identify “unauthorized” structures, prioritize targets and shorten the timeline from detection to demolition. Funding for settler patrols and outpost equipment, rapid settlement expansion and expulsions underline a pattern of administrative annexation, say Palestinian officials. Critics warn the system removes meaningful human oversight, disperses responsibility, trains commercially marketable algorithms on occupied territory, and makes displacement cheaper and faster for authorities while protecting or retroactively legalizing settler construction.
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