IDF's 'Hunter' system creates 'Google Maps' in Gaza battlefield

• Published date: 27 March 2024
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Under each brigade, division, and command, soldiers sit in rooms full of computers, where they remotely locate and confirm attacks on terrorist infrastructure that endangers soldiers out in the field

These "cells" are manned by IDF representatives from intelligence, fire control, and air force units. On each of their computers, a new system called the "Hunter" is activated. This system was developed at the start of the Swords of Iron War and has already saved multiple lives.

"Imagine Google Maps software—but for the battlefield in Gaza. The system gathers indications of threats and allows users to receive information about them," describes Lieutenant E.

Once the information is received, soldiers will decide if to respond to the threat.

The idea for the system was discussed before the war after the IDF realized that different terrorist cells didn't share just one comprehensive attack platform.

After October 7, the "Hunter" system became a necessity

However, on October 7, the idea of the system came to fruition and became a necessity. Immediately, computer divisions began to create it, and within a month, an early...