PhD candidate @TUDelft | Senior Investigator @Cen4infoRes | Previous collaborations: @hrw @bbcworldservice @amnesty @newshour @AJEnglish | [email protected]
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I spoke to @nytimes about why the destruction of land in south Lebanon matters as much as the destruction of homes. Israel has leveled 48 of about 60 villages there, and fires and bulldozers have wiped out thousands of acres of olive groves and farmland. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
With OSINT comes ethics and great responsibility. A reminder for anyone doing geolocation work: the person filming is never the subject. We don't publish their position, we don't assume their affiliation, and we don't invite an army to act on it. This post does all three.
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“Could you see if my home is still standing?” For @newlinesmag, I write about how satellite imagery became one of the only ways Palestinians could see what remained of home. I spoke to four, two from Rafah, about what these images show and leave out.
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Hundreds of IDF investigations into killings without public outcome, BBC Verify finds bbc.in/4B7SMzQ
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If reports are accurate that the explosives seized at Dahr el-Baydar were discovered only after the truck carrying them overturned, this hardly comes as a surprise. The possibility of an assassination is alarming enough. But a more fundamental question remains: what does it mean to live in a country where the state either cannot or will not prevent explosives from being moved across its territory? Materials that could be detonated, by design, sabotage, or accident, almost anywhere.
The Beirut port explosion was the most devastating illustration of the dangers inherent in such a political order. Six years later, despite all the solemn statements and oaths, Lebanon remains a society condemned to perpetual anxiety.
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ما از خرداد ماه، در حال بررسی این موضوع بوده‌ایم که جمهوری اسلامی چگونه معترضان و مخالفان را، هم در داخل کشور و هم در خارج، هدف قرار داده است. همراه با @saitomri, @GilesEmily_ و کیلی کانگ، کارزار هماهنگی که دستگاه امنیتی، قوهٔ قضاییه و صداوسیمای ایران برای ایجاد فضای ترس به راه انداخته‌اند، رصد کرده‌ایم
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ایران از ماه اسفند امسال دست‌کم ۳۴ نفر مرتبط با اعتراضات دی‌ماه را اعدام کرده است. این افزایش شدید اعدام‌های سیاسی در سال‌های اخیر بی‌سابقه بوده است. در ۱۰ روز گذشته پنج نفر اعدام شده‌اند
آنچه در این گزارش بیش از همه توجهم را جلب کرد، تعداد جوانانی است که در ایران اعدام شده‌اند. همچنین اینکه مردم چگونه به‌طور نظام‌مند از حق دادرسی عادلانه و دسترسی به پرونده‌های خودشان محروم شده‌اند. همان‌طور که @SinaYousefilaw به من گفت: «دادگاه‌هایی که برای اجرای عدالت ایجاد شده بودند، اکنون به ابزار سرکوب تبدیل شده‌اند. نهادهای قدرت همگی دست‌به‌دست هم داده‌اند تا این کار را انجام دهند.»
برای بسیاری از ما، این دوران تاریک یادآور تابستان ۱۳۶۷ است، زمانی که جمهوری اسلامیِ هزاران مخالف سیاسی را کشت. ایرانیان هر روز صبح با نام کشته‌شدگانی از خواب بیدار می‌شدند که روزنامه‌ها و برنامه‌های تلویزیونی را پر کرده بود. به همین ترتیب، ایرانیانی که امسال زیر قطعی‌های تحمیل‌شده اینترنت از سوی حکومت زندگی می‌کردند، سیلی از اطلاعیه‌های اعدام و تبلیغات حکومتی را در کانال‌های دولتی تلگرام و تلویزیون می‌دیدند.
از @IHRights, @RoyaBoroumand, @hrw و @HRANA سپاسگزارم که بی‌وقفه مجازات اعدام و دیگر موارد نقض حقوق بشر در ایران را مستند می‌کنند و یافته‌هایشان را با من در میان گذاشتند. همچنین از کسانی در ایران، که با وجود فشارهای شدید، دربارهٔ تجربه‌هایشان با من صحبت کردند، سپاسگزارم.
از بخش گزارش‌های ویژهٔ رویترز (@specialreports) و ویراستارمان @lhinnant ممنونم که جایی برای این گزارش باز کردند.
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Satellite maps can hide a lot. A fake forest covers a military base in Russia, another covers a government area in South Korea.
So I published a video on the free tools you can use to check edits and trust satellite imagery. Link below 👇
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On Monday, Google Maps updated its images of Gaza, giving the public a stark visual record of the destruction that has been ongoing since October 2023.
The update for parts of Gaza shows just how complex OSINT verification has become. 1/5
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Fourteen years ago, a video was posted to YouTube, showing Austin Tice, an American journalist who had been abducted in Syria being dragged up a mountainside.
We've geolocated it next to a Syrian military site, visually confirming it was the regime who took him.
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Beirut is plunging into a hellscape of lawlessness. After frequent shootings, rising theft, and days with no electricity, a new trend: rocks thrown from highways onto passing cars. The latest killed someone yesterday, another hospitalized a driver today. The state remains absent.
في بيروت.. السيارات مجددًا تحت مرمى الحجارة
وثّق مقطع فيديو اللحظات الأولى التي أعقبت إقدام مجهول على رشق سيارة مارة بالحجارة في منطقة المدينة الرياضية في بيروت، في حادثة باتت تتكرر بشكل شبه يومي.
وبحسب المعلومات، نُقل سائق السيارة إلى مستشفى مجاور لتلقّي العلاج.
#بيروت #المدينة_الرياضية #الجديد #أخبار_الجديد
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Since 2025, @ThomasBordeaux7 and I have supported a BBC investigation into Austin Tice’s kidnapping.
It’s published in the podcast: “Where is Austin Tice.”
Key points of Ep. 4 were published as an article. It proves that the regime planned the abduction.
tinyurl.com/y344mx2a
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An Israeli Mikholit bomb can seen right before impact in a strike on a child and man that are approaching the body of a man hit in an earlier strike.
WATCH: Footage appearing to show Israeli forces using a double-tap strike on a wounded Palestinian and a child attempting to evacuate him in Gaza, just one minute after an initial Israeli strike arab.news/pe2aq
Free and open to anyone: a tutorial on geolocation I wrote for @uw_sjmc's Public Tech Media Lab at @UWMadison. One real case worked, a photo of a white phosphorus plume in south Lebanon traced to its exact coordinates, no paid tools or subscriptions: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/geolocati…
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Yesterday, the UK Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, announced sanctions against illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
In July, CIR reported on a number of incidents involving settler violence in and around the village of Tell, in the occupied West Bank.
Since then, CIR has monitored a rise in incidents across the Nablus Governorate, many involving violence and destruction of Palestinian communities. 1/6
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On 24 July 2026, [WARNING: GRAPHIC] footage began circulating on social media appearing to show a shooting involving armed Israeli settlers and Palestinian civilians in the village of Tell, in the occupied West Bank.
In the days that followed, further footage emerged of settler violence in neighbouring villages, alongside statements from Israeli officials calling for a forceful response. CIR has verified a number of these incidents, here’s what we found👇.
[Source: Instagram @i_am_the_shadow]
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In a new report. @hrw has documented 23 verified incidents of Israeli use of white phosphorus over southern lebanon, between March and May 2026.
hrw.org/news/2026/09/09/whit…
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Recent use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in Lebanon underscores the need for regulations. bit.ly/4idO2lb
Just how harmful are these weapons? Watch to learn more ⤵️
New from @hrw and Harvard Law's International Human Rights Clinic: a report on white phosphorus and the loophole in international law that keeps it lawful.
It draws on whitephosphorus.info, the archive from my PhD, now at 286 strikes in south Lebanon, October 2023 to May 2026
Recent use of white phosphorus munitions by Israeli forces in Lebanon underscores the need for regulations. bit.ly/4idO2lb
Just how harmful are these weapons? Watch to learn more ⤵️
In October the UN General Assembly's First Committee sits in New York for a month of disarmament talks. The report urges governments to put white phosphorus on the agenda there, since the treaty body that holds Protocol III moves only by consensus and has stalled for years. 2/3
Worth reading in full. It sets out the medical evidence, the drafting history that produced the loophole, and what a stronger prohibition would have to say. Full report: hrw.org/sites/default/files/… 3/3
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Using weapon remnants, satellite images, witness accounts, here's our report on the U.S. airstrike on a wedding gathering in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed 5 and wounded 67. w/ @malachybrowne @farnazfassihi @ErikaSolomon @johnismay @SanamMahoozi nytimes.com/2026/09/02/video…
