@DGisSERIOUS
@johnminchillo
@pressfreedom
Images of the guy who was being super aggressive toward the journalist (there's something written on his hat "---ztown"?) and the one who assisted in pushing him over the stone railing (wearing camo with a backpack).
Appears that IDF are using bulldozers on the Al-Faluja Cemetary in Jabalya in northern Gaza. Satellite imagery from
@planet
shows what appears to be bulldozer activity in the cemetery between Dec 06 and Dec 10.
Location: 31.533749, 34.489628
Map link:
Will note that the remnant here looks somewhat like an S-300 type missile (like a 5V55K or whatnot). Compare with images from past remnants we've seen in Ukraine:
Stark visual representation of just how powerful the shockwave from yesterday's blast was in
#Beirut
. In a clip of someone filming from around 600m away, the roof of a car in front of the camera caves as the shockwave reaches where the person is standing.
@AricToler
Couple more:
Deputy Director of Operations? Pastor Mike Harding.
Washington DC Station Chief? Film Director and husband of Sigourney Weaver, Jim Simpson.
Something to note in one of these bedroom photos is that there appears to be a pennant for the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces on the bulletin board.
(Thanks to
@MaximEdwards
and
@EliotHiggins
for finding the source image).
Something that Eliot pointed out is that in some of these submunition images you can see date stamps. They help show that they were from Russian rockets, not Ukrainian.
That's because they were manufactured since after Russia stopped exporting these kinds of weapons to Ukraine.
In a new
@Newsy
+
@bellingcat
video,
@EliotHiggins
breaks down the different types of cluster munitions being used in Ukraine and how you can get a better idea of who is using them (overwhelmingly, it's Russia). Always-excellent editing done by
@vandiche
:
There's an extraordinary amount of visual evidence showing dud submunitions left over from mostly Uragan or Smerch rocket attacks using cluster munitions.
They're extremely dangerous and as we've seen in the past like Syria or Vietnam -- they will haunt the country for decades.
@hannah_natanson
All said and done it looks like it's about 1.7 miles of fencing according to Google Maps (minus a few hundred feet for places where buildings prevent fencing from being put up).
New piece from
@bellingcat
shows how, as we see IDF positions close in on Gaza City in recent
@planet
imagery, civilians are also being hemmed in as heavy airstrikes continue in places like Jabalia.
IDF says to go south, but that's being cut off as well.
@DGisSERIOUS
@johnminchillo
@pressfreedom
Not exactly clear who they were, but another journalist may have been assaulted near the Capitol breach where Trump supporters were streaming in. This was from neo-Nazi Baked Alaska's livestream where he claims the man worked for CNN (once again, not clear how accurate that is):
The attachments to the government's Motion in Support of Pretrial Detention for Jack Teixeira that just dropped has some interesting bits in it.
Here's an interaction on Discord where Teixeira seems confident the leaks can't be traced back to him (oops).
Part of the government's argument that Teixeira is a flight risk is that they found a destroyed Xbox, tablet and laptop in a dumpster at his home and say that it shows that he was destroying evidence.
In our latest
@Newsy
+
@bellingcat
video, working with
@Yaolri
of
#BBCAfricaEye
, we uncover more about a massacre that took place in Ethiopia's Tigray region where armed soldiers are seen executing civilians and throwing their bodies off a cliffside.
Though, just based off the quick look we get in the video walkthrough, at least some of the supplies appear to be fairly basic. Visible is a box of medical masks and an "herbal pain relief ointment".
The bag labels show they're from "Inter Medico For Medical Supplies".
Slapping a negative effect filter on a video isn't going to suddenly reveal a missile that's invisible in the original footage. That's not how cameras work. The visual information has to exist in the image in the first place!
Video of a government building on fire (Ukrainian Security Service) in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine. Building and video located at 51.496691, 31.316021:
Shared on Telegram here:
Video of bombardment in Kharkiv. Film points towards direction of airport, but clear that residential area is being hit. Geolocation around 50.013302, 36.278364:
Shared on Telegram via
@nexta_tv
:
Seen in on-the-ground video shared by Abdul Sabah, who posted this video to his Instagram showing the Al-Faluja Cemetary and the apparent bulldozer tracks.
IG link:
These images from Reuters/Vitalii Hnidyi show the absolutely massive amount of cluster munitions fired at Kharkiv since Russia invaded. And this is just one city. Mykolaiv has seen many attacks with cluster munitions as well.
Reuters link for first photo:
Was also looking at the vehicle diagram on Teixeira's bulletin board. Looks a bit like an Oshkosh M-ATV, though with some differences (front wheel well is similar, though with really tiny tires?).
Kinda' seems like something you could whip up in AutoCAD for fun.
Part of Teixeira's lawyer's argument for no pretrial detention is that he didn't run after figuring out he was a suspect and instead "sat on his mother's porch reading a bible in his uniform-compliant undershirt".
No mention of the destroyed Xbox/tablet/laptop in the dumpster.
There are photos of Teixeira's room, though there also appears to be at least one photo of another bedroom. FBI says they found a gun locker with "handguns, bolt-action rifles, shotguns, an AK-style high-capacity weapon, and a gas mask." Also ammo & a "silencer-style accessory."
@willsommer
Something that caught my eye -- while the individual doesn't appear to match up, at least one guy wearing an orange hat has a similar radio as seen used by PB's in previous events in DC. Second image is from 12/12 "Stop the Steal" rally.
Quick map with most recent
@planet
imagery of the area showing where the
@WCKitchen
vehicles were hit in multiple IDF airstrikes south of Deir al-Balah.
These images from Reuters/Vitalii Hnidyi show the absolutely massive amount of cluster munitions fired at Kharkiv since Russia invaded. And this is just one city. Mykolaiv has seen many attacks with cluster munitions as well.
Reuters link for first photo:
Like the inverted/negative video, there's another one floating around that inserts a missile into the video. It's also fake. They didn't even try to invert it to make it look like "thermal vision" or whatever.
There's a lot of evidence showing cluster munitions used in Ukraine - especially the 9N235 & 9N210 submunitions. Here's an image of another kind used in the Kyiv region: the 9N24 submunition.
Shared on FB by Ukraine's SES mobile rescue center:
Also includes some conversations Jack had with other users once his images started making the rounds outside the servers he was active in.
And there's the farewell message he wrote in March that
@AricToler
already dug up.
The other image on his bulletin board was taken at the Massachusetts State House in Boston. Looks like representatives regularly take photos of groups of students at the bottom of the stairs.
Link to one image on Google Maps:
Video of the aftermath of a missile strike on a residential/school area in
#Mariupol
today. Right next to a playground. Location is 47.110111, 37.553005.
Video shared on Telegram here:
Some shoddy videos are claiming to show evidence of a missile hitting Beirut's port claiming it was the cause of the explosion. Here's a quick side-by-side showing the original video at normal, 1/2 and 1/4 speeds along with the "thermal imaging" fake video.
@kromark
@Poikamaalta
@SimpleRocketman
Looked around on the wire services to see if anyone got an image showing damage to the dome from that first hit.
This photo from Getty/Anadolu Agency shows what looks like some burn marks on part of the dome near the stairway/catwalk.
The Dnipropetrovsk Prosecutor's Office reports that on April 28 a man from Mala Kostromka was killed after picking up a submunition.
An image shared by the office shows what looks to be the internal cage for 3B30 submunitions from a 9M54-series missile.
Teixeira didn't exactly get a ringing endorsement from his Air Force National Guard colleague who spoke with the FBI agent investigating Jack — he thought Jack would target him first if he went on a workplace rampage.
Via the government's motion in support of pretrial detention:
@JasonLeopold
@JimLaPorta
Unredacted photos were shared by DHS in July so not sure why they’d redact them now. Easy enough to match the suits/uniforms with those in the FOIA request.
To reiterate: this claim is likely incorrect because the metadata screenshot from Ekho Moskvi Radio shows the total runtime at 00:55:56.
The length of tonight's video is 00:28:03. I'd grab the metadata from tonight's Kremlin video but the download is going at potato speed.
IDF confirming a raid is in progress at Shifa Hospital in Gaza. UN has said there are still 600 patients, up to 500 staff, and 1500 displaced people inside.
🔴 Operational Update:
IDF forces are carrying out a precise and targeted operation against Hamas in a specified area in the Shifa Hospital, based on intelligence information and an operational necessity.
The IDF is conducting a ground operation in Gaza to defeat Hamas and…
I'd be wary of this claim... Mainly because the length in the metadata screenshot shows that the duration of the video analyzed is 00:55:56. The length of tonight's speech was 00:28:03, as seen here at the Kremlin website:
Russia’s independent Ekho Moskvi Radio (Echo of Moscow) reports that Putin’s speech about the beginning of the “military operation” was recorded on February 21st. He is wearing same tie.
“Confirmed by downloading video from Kremlin web-page and checking metadata” – tweet says.
Appears that Ukrainian forces are back in control of Sviatohirsk. Images shared online show the Ukrainian flag at the city council building and soldiers in the city across the river from the Sviatohirsk Lavra.
@RALee85
Image from Ukraine's Air Assault Forces showing 7 Russian vehicles at around 49.042907, 37.572328 in Sviatohirsk, right south of the city's church. Near where previous drone footage showed vehicles (3rd image)
Map link:
FB link:
While on the face this seems okay—there are a lot of considerations that I'm worried aren't being taken into account.
One example are inactive accounts that have shared images/video or messages in the past that could be important for any investigations into potential war crimes.
Latest
@Newsy
+
@bellingcat
video on the Capitol riots is out. Working with
@gianfiorella
,
@N_Waters89
and the rest of the team we searched through videos of Trump supporters who had broken into the Capitol building and pinpointed where they were.
@Gerashchenko_en
This thread from
@kromark
gives some good evidence that this video is actually showing the *second* drone hit — so that could explain why people are checking out the roof.
There were 2 drones which flew from different directions. 1st one caused some fire, second one didn't. Check the clock: 1st one is 2.27, 2nd one 2.43. The video with the people climbing the dome is indeed the 2nd drone (no fire caused).
The Bin Marwan Cemetery, to the south in Shejaiya, was also partly cleared after the IDF arrived in the area. Seen here in
@planet
imagery from Dec 06 and Dec 10.
Cemetery location: 31.503634, 34.468137
Map link:
A third cemetery, the Shejaiya Cemetery, has also been heavily damaged with the IDF setting up armored vehicles at the location.
The center area was clear before the war started (there were graves there in 2022).
Location: 31.498113, 34.473755
Map link:
This started happening when people were forced to flee their homes in and around Khan Yunis.
One person wanted to check on his father's pharmacy and his home. Months later, he was able to check on both in person and found his home was torched and his father's business destroyed.
There's a section of this new
@bellingcat
/
@scrippsnews
documentary where Gazans who have fled from their homes during Israeli offensives DM
@JakeGodin
asking him to check recent satellite imagery to see if their homes have been destroyed.
Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin announces the White House has prepared primary and secondary sanctions against Turkey if it targets civilians or allows "even a single ISIS figher to escape." Says, "We can shut down the Turkish economy if we need to."
The man who broke into a Capitol window using a police riot shield in this video from
@BGOnTheScene
appears to be both a Proud Boy and, possibly, a former Marine. A short thread on what we know:
Given news of a US withdrawal from Syria, worth pointing out comments made by JCS Chairman Dunford just earlier this month: ISIS largely cleared but there are still thousands of fighters & only around 8k local forces trained. Need 40k trained and equipped to provide stability.
The amount of displaced Palestinians taking refuge around Shifa Hospital in downtown Gaza city continues to grow.
Can see how much the area around the hospital has changed between October 15 and November 6 in these
@planet
images.
Quick thread with some previous Tochka uses in Ukraine so far. On February 24 there was evidence of a strike near a hospital in Vuhledar in the Donetsk oblast:
Should note this 2-second clip from Tulsi Gabbard's "wasteful regime change wars" 2020 campaign video is actually a clip showing Assad dropping barrel bombs on Daraya in February, 2016.
Tulsi2020 video:
Daraya Local Council video:
Another video going around claims a black dot is supposedly a loitering munition or missile of some sort that struck Beirut's port. Slowed down, you can pretty easily tell it's just a bird flying around between the cameraperson and the explosion.
A Memorandum in Support of Release for Teixeira was just added to the docket. Jack's lawyers argue the government's argument that he's a flight risk is hyperbolic and speculative.
Link to the main document via
@AricToler
:
A week ago, the World Health Organization said that despite a second delivery of some aid, medical conditions at Shifa were disastrous and that patients were undergoing "immense and unnecessary pain as medicines and anesthetics are running out."
Teixeira's lawyers say the guns seen in one of the bedroom photos from the government's motion are "airsoft toys that are no longer in the residence."
Also say that all of Teixeira's other firearms have been removed and his father has also removed his own firearms.
The photojournalist who captured the drone footage here showing the massive destruction in Shati camp was reportedly targeted in a recent Israeli strike and seriously wounded.
Shocking footage shows unimaginable destruction in📍
#Gaza
city, including our health centre.
+70% of civilian infrastructure- including homes, hospitals & schools- have been destroyed or severely damaged.
84% of health facilities have been affected by attacks.
Nowhere is safe.
A series of 5 videos appeared online in early March. We were able to geolocate them to a cliffside south of the town of Mahbere Dego, which lies about 15km south of Axum in central
#Tigray
.
@KimGhattas
@EliotHiggins
@bellingcat
@N_Waters89
@Newsy
If you compare the original footage to the negative ones (a simple video editing effect) -- you can see that the "missile" was added in.
Nick pointed out a helpful tip for looking at videos frame-by-frame on YouTube here:
I've now seen three separate edited videos featuring a cartoon missile being used as "proof" of an airstrike.
Things that will help you spot these fakes: turn the playback speed to 0.25 on YouTube. Skip through one frame at a time using the <> keys.
For more remnant comparison, here's a fragment of an S-300 type missile that was used in an attack in Mykolaiv in October.
@Michael1Sheldon
noted the threaded bit in top of the Mykolaiv remnant.
Link for the comparison image (near bottom):
Word of caution regarding
@TpyxaNews
tweet here:
The image used for comparison here is indeed from a 10-31 incident, via head of Kyiv region police (h/t
@Michael1Sheldon
)
But the other image shown looks more like a S-300 remnants.
Images of what appears to be a nose section for a 9M54-series guided missile near Avdiivka just north of Donetsk. These were shared on Facebook by the Ukrainian National Police as well as a local media outlet:
Link 1:
Link 2:
As more info comes out on the strike against al-Zawahiri, it'd be good to get a refresher on what to look for in an R9X strike. Last August we did a
@Newsy
+
@bellingcat
video on just that:
Text piece from
@N_Waters89
here:
There have been more than 100 attacks against the press by police in the past week. Our latest
@Newsy
+
@bellingcat
video examines two such clusters of incidents in Minneapolis — where media were hit with tear gas, injured by rubber bullets or arrested.
There are also photos/videos from Bohorodychne nearby. This video shows what's left of the city's monastery buildings, one of which was destroyed on May 17 by an apparent Russian cruise missile strike.
On May 17, a monastery in nearby Bohodychne was completely destroyed when it was hit by an apparent Russian cruise missile. Photos shared by the Lavra not only show the destroyed cathedral building but also some weapon fragments.
Seeing folks point out people on the roof shortly before the drone strike at the Kremlin proves something fishy was happening (false flag, etc).
But, as RFE/RL's
@kromark
noted—this appears to be video of the *second* drone and the people were checking out damage from the first.
@rcallimachi
@jenanmoussa
Easy enough to fact check, too: a
@NPA_SY
video from as recent as June 2019 filmed inside the same church shows no YPG/PYD propaganda.
Dystopian read, from
@yuval_abraham
.
"One source stated that human personnel often served only as a 'rubber stamp' for the decisions ... they would devote only about '20 seconds' to each target before authorizing a bombing—just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male."
New imagery from
@planet
on Jan11 shows the large scale demolition of buildings in Khuzaa by the IDF. Dec03 shows area before the mass destruction started.
A quick hand count of the buildings in the annotated area on Google Earth puts the number of destroyed structures at ~450.
🚨Israeli soldiers brag about "annihilating" an entire town, Khuzaa in Khan Younis, home to over 13,000 people:
"We went joyous... to annihilate the village... We blew up the ENTIRE village"
Not a single headline or even passing mention in US/EU mainstream media! NOT ONE!
For context on this third cemetery in Shejaiya — it sounds like the center part was being cleared already by the government in Gaza to make room for a school:
According to Palestinian media, it sounds like it was a chaotic mess and not going well.