Israel’s military faces backlash over AI ‘Ghibli-style’ social media posts

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It also contrasts the painstaking work that goes into meticulously crafting the beautiful hand-drawn films produced by Studio Ghibli with the instant gratification culture fed by social media and the emergence of AI models.</p> <p> Not wanting to be left out, the Israel Defense Forces on Sunday posted four images depicting different branches of its military in the Ghibli style on its social media accounts.</p> <p> “We thought we’d also hop on the trend,” the post said.</p> <p> </p> <div class="media_embed" height="472px" width="600px"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="472px" width="600px"><p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> More like <a href="https://t.co/d2k0IyHldA">pic.twitter.com/d2k0IyHldA</a></p> <p> — Dark Mode (@scottiev) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottiev/status/1906417917757141360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2025</a></p></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="472px" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width="600px"></script></div> <p> </p> <p> What followed was a barrage of responses, many angry, many humorous, denouncing and mocking the post.</p> <p> The images were shared as Israel intensified the bombing of Gaza where it has already killed more than 50,000 Palestinians and forced the population to flee their homes in an action it began in October 2023.</p> <p> Many responded with AI-generated images in the Ghibli style on X that depicted Israeli brutality in the Palestinian territory.</p> <p> The counter-images depicted Israeli soldiers mocking a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian child, and IDF troops pointing rifles at women and children against a backdrop of devastation.</p> <p> “Colonizing art too,” read one reply in reference to Israel’s building of illegal settlements and its occupation of Palestinian land.</p> <p> Other users pointed out that Hayao Miyazaki, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, is a staunch pacifist and that many of his films contain strong anti-war messages.</p> <p> He famously refused to travel to the US in 2003 to attend the Academy Awards where his work “Spirited Away” won an Oscar.</p> <p> A video from 2016 appears to show Miyazaki’s disdain for AI-generated imagery. 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</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p> JERUSALEM: The Israeli army announced it had launched a new ground offensive east of Gaza City on Friday to expand the security zone it has established inside the Palestinian territory.<br /> “Over the past few hours... troops have begun conducting ground activity in the area of Shejaiya in northern Gaza, in order to expand the security zone,” the military said in a statement.<br /> “The troops eliminated numerous terrorists and dismantled Hamas terrorist infrastructure, including a command and control center that served Hamas terrorists to plan and execute terror attacks,” the statement added.<br /> “During and prior to the activity... troops are allowing the evacuation of civilians from the combat zone via organized routes for their safety.”<br /> Defense Minister Israel Katz had said on Wednesday that Israel would bolster its military presence inside the Gaza Strip to “destroy and clear the area of terrorists and terrorist 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millennia, Gaza was the endpoint of caravan routes, a port that minted its own currency, and a city that thrived at the meeting point of water and sand,” she told AFP.<br /> One section of the exhibition documents the extent of recent destruction.<br /> Using satellite image, the UN’s cultural agency UNESCO has already identified damage to 94 heritage sites in Gaza, including the 13th-century Pasha’s Palace.<br /> Bouffard said the damage to the known sites as well as treasures potentially hidden in unexplored Palestinian land “depends on the bomb tonnage and their impact on the surface and underground.”<br /> “For now, it’s impossible to assess.”<br /> The attacks by Hamas militants on Israel in 2023 left 1,218 dead. In retaliation, Israeli operations have killed more than 50,000 Palestinians and devastated the densely populated territory.</p> <p> The story behind “Gaza’s Treasures” is inseparable from the ongoing wars in the Middle East.<br /> At the end of 2024, the Institut du Monde Arabe was finalizing an exhibition on artifacts from the archaeological site of Byblos in Lebanon, but Israeli bombings on Beirut made the project impossible.<br /> “It came to a sudden halt, but we couldn’t allow ourselves to be discouraged,” said Bouffard.<br /> The idea of an exhibition on Gaza’s heritage emerged.<br /> “We had just four and a half months to put it together. That had never been done before,” she explained.<br /> Given the impossibility of transporting artifacts out of Gaza, the Institut turned to 529 pieces stored in crates in a specialized Geneva art warehouse since 2006. The works belong to the Palestinian Authority, which administers the West Bank.</p> <p> The Oslo Accords of 1993, signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel, helped secure some of Gaza’s treasures.<br /> In 1995, Gaza’s Department of Antiquities was established, which oversaw the first archaeological digs in collaboration with the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem (EBAF).<br /> Over the years, excavations uncovered the remains of the Monastery of Saint Hilarion, the ancient Greek port of Anthedon, and a Roman necropolis — traces of civilizations spanning from the Bronze Age to Ottoman influences in the late 19th century.<br /> “Between Egypt, Mesopotamian powers, and the Hasmoneans, Gaza has been a constant target of conquest and destruction throughout history,” Bouffard noted.<br /> In the 4th century BC, Greek leader Alexander the Great besieged the city for two months, leaving behind massacres and devastation.<br /> Excavations in Gaza came to a standstill when Hamas took power in 2007 and Israel imposed a blockade.<br /> Land pressure and rampant building in one of the world’s most densely populated areas has also complicated archaeological work.<br /> And after a year and a half of war, resuming excavations seems like an ever-more distant prospect.<br /> The exhibition runs until November 2, 2025.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-shares-wrapper"> <div class="a2a_kit" addthis:title="Gaza heritage and destruction on display in Paris" addthis:url="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2595866"> <div class="entry-share"> <a class="a2a_button_facebook facebook-btn"><i class="icomoon-icon icon-facebook"></i></a> <a class="a2a_button_twitter twitter-btn"><i class="icomoon-icon icon-twitter"></i></a> <a class="a2a_button_linkedin linkedin-btn"><i class="icomoon-icon icon-linkedin"></i></a> <a class="a2a_button_whatsapp whatsapp-btn"> <i class="icomoon-icon icon-whatsapp"></i></a> </div> <div class="entry-otpions"> <a 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hostilities that followed the outbreak of war in Gaza in October 2023.<br /> They included rocket fire on the Israeli town of Safed on February 14, 2024 that killed an Israeli soldier, the military added.<br /> The strike on a flat in a residential area of Sidon killed the official and his adult son and daughter, a Palestinian official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.<br /> An AFP correspondent saw the fourth-floor flat still on fire after the strike, which caused heavy damage to the apartment block and neighboring buildings and sparked panic in the densely populated neighborhood.<br /> Lebanese state media had reported the 3:45 am (0045 GMT) strike on Sidon, saying at least three people were killed.<br /> “A hostile drone raided a residential apartment... causing two successive explosions that led to a fire and extensive damage,” the state-run National News Agency reported.<br /> Emergency workers rushed to the scene where they recovered “the bodies of three martyrs,” NNA said.<br /> The Lebanese prime minister called for “maximum pressure on Israel to force it to halt these continual attacks which target various districts, many of them residential areas.”<br /> Israel struck south Beirut earlier this week, killing a Hezbollah Palestinian liaison officer in only the the second raid on the capital since a November ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group.<br /> The Lebanese health ministry reported four dead in that strike, including a woman.<br /> Lebanese leaders condemned the attack but Israel said it was in response to recent unclaimed rocket fire that Hezbollah insists it had no hand in.<br /> Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah spiralled into all-out conflict last September, and the group remains a target of Israeli air strikes despite the November 27 ceasefire.<br /> Under the truce, Hezbollah is supposed to redeploy its forces north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Israeli border, and dismantle any 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