Thrilled to share that I’ve been promoted to Visual Investigations Reporter @cnn.com. I'll be further honing my specialism in #osint, maintaining my focus on war crimes and human rights abuses — and looking forward to exploring some new areas too!

US-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb at the scene of an Israeli strike on an unrwa clinic in Jabalya in northern Gaza on Wednesday.

Gaza’s Civil Defense said 19 bodies, including nine children, were recovered

(h/t) to @easybakeovensz.bsky.social ensz for helping identify the weapon

NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION FROM @cnn.com

we pieced together the evidence of a massacre of a minority community in a coastal Syrian village

with @tqiblawi.bsky.social Sarah Sirgany and @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social

cnn.com/2025/03/17/middleeast/syria-massacre-alawite-minority-intl-invs/index.html

New footage from inside Sednaya Prison, filmed by IDA and sent to @nytimes.com, shows the grim conditions within: numbered cells with debris, crumbling walls and ceilings, family members looking for loved ones sifting through paper records. nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

Around 3 pm today, airstrikes reportedly hit 5 medical facilities in Idlib City, Syria, incl. 4 hospitals (one with a maternity ward). Flight data from @SentrySyria shows two Russian aircraft departed Hmeimim and circled above the opposition-held city at the time of the strikes.

Filmed at 36.19757674023808, 37.10078018234042, not far from the city's western edge

#Syria
This video which reportedly shows Syrian regime army troops withdrawing from the New Aleppo neighborhood of Aleppo is geolocated to 36.19508, 37.08698

Pictures of the US JDAM Bomb guidance kit fragments from a strike in Lebanon that killed 3 journalists.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Let's make a more diverse osint starter pack - a 50/50 m/f split and a move away from westerners would be great. I've made a start (and yes, it's currently lots of men/westerners - help me shift the balance!) Can the community help me crowd source this?

go.bsky.app/36JpUBi

Crucial new @hrw.org report finds US munitions were used in the Israeli attack which killed three journalists at the Hasbaya Village Club Resort in Hasbaya in southern Lebanon on October 25. @hrw.org describes the strike as an “apparent war crime”
www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...

Looting is now a huge obstacle to distributing aid in Gaza. UN memo obtained by @washingtonpost.com says gangs “benefit from passive if not active benevolence” or “protection” by IDF. One gang leader established compound in zone “controlled & patrolled by IDF.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Can we talk about this now? Thanks to @bellingcat.com for an amazing couple of days at Bellingfest. For those who missed it, many of the sessions are online here. Brian McClendon of Google Earth and Pokemon Go fame was an amazing end of day highlight
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

The Israeli military did not issue an evacuation warning before conducting this airstrike

The building struck in municipal Beirut this afternoon is the headquarters of the Ba’ath party in Lebanon, geolocated here 33.883045, 35.50906. It's in the Ras el Nabaa neighbourhood, well within Beirut's city limits

@geoconfirmed.org

Had such a great time at Bellingcat’s 10th anniversary conference! Met some heroes, and we had a talk from the creator of Google Earth, Brian McClendon, which feels like the #osint equivalent of having met Britney