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Ahmad Baydoun

@baydoun.nl
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Senior Investigator @cen4infores.bsky.social | PhD candidate at TUDelft: whitephosphorus.info | Portfolio: baydoun.nl | Amsterdam, Beirut | weatherwar@pm.me

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember the absolute garbage people who fell hook, line and sinker for Assadists propaganda on this, and attacked those of us who called that out - Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Austin Tice: Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds
Austin Tice’s abduction was approved by Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad, a source claims.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 10/09/2026
I gave a tutorial on geolocation for the @publictechmedialab.bsky.social at the @uwsjmc.bsky.social, working through one real case: a white phosphorus plume in south Lebanon, traced from a single photo to exact coordinates using only free, open source tools: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/geolocating-...
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Geolocating White Phosphorus Plumes with Open Source Tools
A tutorial from the Public Tech Media Lab, University of Wisconsin Madison By Ahmad Baydoun In today’s media landscape, by the time you see a photo from a war zone on your phone or computer, it has pr...
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 09/09/2026
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: www.hrw.org/sites/defaul...
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 09/09/2026
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.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 09/09/2026
New from @hrw.org 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. 🧵
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Editor’s Pick: Israel called its strikes on Beirut “precise.” @baydoun.nl  and @chrisosieck.bsky.social  reconstructed five of them to test what “precision” actually meant for the civilians living around the targets. f.mtr.cool/mivlcnrmvg
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Trevor Ball @easybakeovensz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Great investigation that illustrates the vast range of death and destruction that strikes can cause depending on the munition(s) used.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 11/08/2026
Same military, same arsenal. The destruction ranged from one room to two buildings, and Israel never explained the difference. Technical and legal analysis on the munitions, the targeting process and the law of war: with @wesjbryant.bsky.social, @adhaque.bsky.social and @easybakeovensz.bsky.social.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 11/08/2026
In Jnah, a strike on one reported target leveled two residential buildings in a working-class district of Lebanese families and Syrian and Sudanese migrant workers. Five people were killed alongside him, 52 wounded. No warning was issued. Israel has never acknowledged the strike.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 11/08/2026
A third strike killed Al-Manar's political programming director and his wife in their bedroom. The apartment burned; the floors above and below were almost intact. But the buildings across the street were sprayed with fragments on a Wednesday morning.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 11/08/2026
Two bombs pierced the roof in Ain Saadeh and detonated two floors down. The intended target reportedly survived. Pierre and Flavia Mouawad were killed, with their neighbor Roula Mattar. Israel's spokesman later said Mouawad "was definitely not a target."
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 11/08/2026
To locate the room where 15-year-old Jad Kobeissi was killed, we matched photographs from an old real-estate listing — balcony railings, window placement, a chamfered corner — against the damaged facade. His bedroom sat on the seventh floor, one floor below the likely aim point.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 11/08/2026
NEW: Israel called its Beirut strikes "precise." @chrisosieck.bsky.social and I reconstructed five of them for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. One killed a man in his bedroom and spared his family. Another leveled two buildings to kill one man. Israel has not explained the difference f.mtr.cool/mivlcnrmvg
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In our latest @newlinesmag.bsky.social investigation, @baydoun.nl and I used site visits, spatial analysis, testimonies and interviews with military and legal experts to present an anatomy of five Israeli "precision strikes" in Lebanon.
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Israel Called Its Beirut Strikes Precise. We Reconstructed Five of Them
New Lines investigates attacks in and around Lebanon’s capital, from a single destroyed room to flattened residential buildings, testing Israeli claims about distinguishing targets from civilians
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 07/08/2026
Over 34 months of its attacks on Lebanon, Israel repeatedly used white phosphorus, tracing the boundaries of its “security zone” in fire and smoke. Researcher Ahmad Baydoun presents some of the key figures and findings from his investigation. @whitephosphorus.info @baydoun.nl
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 06/07/2026
A Bellingcat investigation uncovered the work of a wildlife trafficker in Myanmar, advertising everything from tiger bones, rhino horns, to leopard gallbladders, openly on social media platforms. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...
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Rhino Horn, Leopard Skin and Tiger Claws Sold Openly on Facebook - bellingcat
Bellingcat uncovers a Myanmar wildlife trafficker linked to endangered species sales, prompting account removals by Meta, WeChat, TikTok and YouTube.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 07/06/2026
Sanjana's piece also features @wammezz.bsky.social on what outlasts the smoke: contaminated soil, scorched farmland, land people still can't safely return to. The full database is available at whitephosphorus.info.
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White Phosphorus
Geolocating, mapping, and documenting Israeli military's use of white phosphorus in Lebanon between 2023 and 2024.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 07/06/2026
White phosphorus is still falling on south Lebanon. A new @nytimes.com investigation by @sanjanamv.bsky.social, with verified footage as recent as May 30. It references the research database of 200+ strikes I've been building since Oct 2023. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/w...
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What Visual Evidence Tells Us About Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus in Lebanon
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Analysis by @sanjanamv.bsky.social on Israel’s use of white phosphorus in Lebanon and the dangers it poses to public health and the land, with a reference to @baydoun.nl's visual database documenting its use and commentary from @wammezz.bsky.social. .
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What Visual Evidence Tells Us About Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus in Lebanon
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Next week, the great @ntabrizy.bsky.social will be at @debalie.bsky.social to speak about her years of experience using OSINT to report on Iran, covering protests, state repression, and the U.S.-Israeli military campaigns. ++ You can say hi to fellow investigators such as @baydoun.nl and myself.
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Investigation by @baydoun.nl, @ntabrizy.bsky.social, and myself for @newlinesmag.bsky.social used 3D-spatial analysis to examine Israel’s airstrikes on two of Iran’s largest steel plants, showing how the effects extended beyond the facilities to workers and civilian life.
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How Israeli Airstrikes Targeted Iran's Steel Industry
Satellite imagery, geolocated footage and 3D reconstruction show how strikes on two plants hit critical production bottlenecks, disrupting a sector tied to 1.2 million jobs
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Spoke to @columjournreview.bsky.social about the blackout open-source investigators are facing in the Middle East. I highlighted the investigation by @baydoun.nl, @ntabrizy.bsky.social, @wammezz.bsky.social, and myself on Israel’s strikes on Tehran’s oil depots, and how we worked around it.
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Blind spots.
A satellite company popular among journalists issued an indefinite blackout in the Middle East. Open-source investigators got to work—and challenged official narratives.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 20/04/2026
The IDF's 2026 "Forward Defense Zone" mapped against the 1985–2000 "Security Zone". In 1985 Israel recruited Christian and Druze communities to administer the occupied territory through SLA. In 2026 no administration is needed as the strategy is the zone's complete depopulation.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 20/04/2026
98% of documented white phosphorus attacks in south Lebanon — tracked at whitephosphorus.info — fall within the IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone." The zone Israel now claims as a military buffer is the same territory it systematically struck with that munition.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 20/04/2026
The IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone" covers approximately 70 Lebanese villages - more than the 55 villages reported by Israeli media. Among those known to still be inhabited: the Christian villages of Rmeish, Debl, and Ain Ebel, and the Sunni town of Shebaa.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 20/04/2026
Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement. More maps in this thread 🧵
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Exclusive: @baydoun.nl spent years reconstructing a detention center in southern Lebanon, then watched satellite images confirm his fear: The prison where thousands were held without charge was razed by Israeli excavators.
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Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center
The prison in southern Lebanon where thousands were held without charge has been razed to the ground, confirming the fears of a researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of the site
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Spoke to @nieuwsuur.nl about @ntabrizy.bsky.social and my recent investigations in Iran. People in Iran are now caught between bombardment from the skies and the Islamic Republic’s repressive system. We should not lose sight of the people living through this, and what it means for them every day.
Excerpt from Nieuwsuur episode.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"What are memory, reconstruction, and the power of the image when the place is gone?" Satellite images show Israeli excavators demolishing Khiam Detention Center in southern Lebanon, where 5,000+ were once held and tortured, reports @@baydoun.nl  
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Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center
The prison in southern Lebanon where thousands were held without charge has been razed to the ground, confirming the fears of a researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of the site
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NEW: Exclusive: Satellite images show Israeli excavators demolishing Khiam Detention Center in southern Lebanon, where more than 5,000 people were once held and tortured by an Israeli proxy, reports Ahmad Baydoun for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/reportage/sa...
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Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center
The prison in southern Lebanon where thousands were held without charge has been razed to the ground, confirming the fears of a researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of the site
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 30/03/2026
In 2019 I went to Khiam to document it, believing the historic detention center wouldn't survive, so I built a virtual reconstruction. Last week it was razed by Israeli forces. My piece for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on what that means, and what a 3D model cannot hold. newlinesmag.com/reportage/sa...
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Satellite Imagery Reveals the Israeli Demolition of Khiam Detention Center
The prison in southern Lebanon where thousands were held without charge has been razed to the ground, confirming the fears of a researcher who spent years building a virtual reconstruction of the site
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
An exclusive investigation reveals the substantial air pollution unleashed by Israel’s recent strikes on fuel storage sites across Iran’s capital.  @baydoun.nl @chrisosieck.bsky.social @ntabrizy.bsky.social  @wammezz.bsky.social 
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The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran
An exclusive investigation reveals the substantial air pollution unleashed by Israel’s recent strikes on fuel storage sites across Iran’s capital
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 19/03/2026
We then compared the model with satellite imagery from March 11. The observed smoke matches the direction and spread shown in the model, and indicates ongoing smoke from the Shahr-e Rey site more than 80 hours after the initial strikes.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 19/03/2026
This map shows how smoke moved across Tehran in the hours following the strikes, based on atmospheric modeling and wind conditions, overlaid on the city’s population density.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 19/03/2026
New investigation: We tracked how smoke from strikes on Tehran’s fuel depots spread across the city. Together with @chrisosieck.bsky.social @ntabrizy.bsky.social @wammezz.bsky.social, we used satellite imagery, geolocation and wind analysis to map its movement. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
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The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran
An exclusive investigation reveals the substantial air pollution unleashed by Israel’s recent strikes on fuel storage sites across Iran’s capital
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW: Israel’s airstrikes on oil depots across Tehran have unleashed extensive air pollution, report @baydoun.nl, @chrisosieck.bsky.social , @ntabrizy.bsky.social and @wammezz.bsky.social , in an exclusive investigation for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
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The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran
An exclusive investigation reveals the substantial air pollution unleashed by Israel’s recent strikes on fuel storage sites across Iran’s capital
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Using interviews, satellite imagery and atmospheric modelling, we reconstructed how smoke from strikes on oil infrastructure spread across Tehran. The plume extended across much of the city. Investigation by @baydoun.nl, @ntabrizy.bsky.social, @wammezz.bsky.social, and myself.
newlinesmag.com
The Noxious Smoke Enveloping Tehran
An exclusive investigation reveals the substantial air pollution unleashed by Israel’s recent strikes on fuel storage sites across Iran’s capital
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 03/03/2026
Mapped the evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army in south Lebanon over the past two days. The March 03 order marks a significant expansion beyond the immediate border towns and well beyond the Litani River. I counted 105 villages so far.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 15/01/2026
91% of documented white phosphorus strikes occurred before Israel's ground entry. 39% hit civilian areas and 16% agricultural land. Those figures contradict Israel’s version of its use and proximity to civilians. More findings in this video interview for @france24.com. Full article: f24.my/BffV
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
One of Lebanon’s strongest open-source researchers, @baydoun.nl, spoke with The Observers on FRANCE 24 (in Arabic) about his investigation into Israel’s use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon. Watch here:
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The Observers - Israel used white phosphorus widely in southern Lebanon, study finds
An investigation by open-source researcher Ahmad Baydoun highlights Israel's use of white phosphorus munitions during the recent conflict with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon between October 2023 and No...
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
"91% of white phosphorus strikes happened before Israeli forces entered southern Lebanon in Oct 2024, contradicting Israel’s official version. Of all strikes we documented, 39% hit civilian areas, 16% agricultural land, and only 44% uninhabited zones." @baydoun.nl in @france24.com.
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Au Sud-Liban, une étude révèle le "danger persistant" des frappes israéliennes au phosphore blanc
En cartographiant 248 frappes, une enquête menée par un chercheur en sources ouvertes, Ahmad Baydoun, met en lumière l’utilisation par Israël du phosphore blanc lors du dernier conflit au Sud-Liban,…
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“What does it say about us, as Lebanese, as Arabs, that we rent out our heritage? That the places meant to anchor us have become props for vanity? Perhaps it is not greed alone, but a deeper forgetting, a loss of measure.” newlinesmag.com/spotlight/je...
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Jeita Grotto and the Price of Heritage
A private wedding in Lebanon’s breathtaking caves shows how even such sites of natural and cultural significance are becoming a privilege of the wealthy
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 11/11/2025
After months of verification and mapping, the archive now includes 248 confirmed white phosphorus strikes across South Lebanon (2023-2024). Only incidents with visual evidence were used, then geolocated, verified, and cross-checked with satellite imagery Part of my PhD research at TU Delft.
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Sumud at it's finest: 81-year-old Nouhad returns to her olive grove in southern Lebanon, bound to the land by love and memory. Israeli incursions and white phosphorus have scorched the soil, but neither people nor roots are so easily uprooted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV52...
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Shifting Roots: A Lebanese Woman’s Fight to Save Her Olive Trees | DigiDocs
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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NRC @nrc.nl · 10/08/2025
In een oorlog kan ook de leefomgeving een wapen worden. Zuid-Libanon ligt vol witte fosfor, resten van aanvallen door Israël. „Het is als het ware een langdurige bom.” buff.ly/Wdge2wz
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‘De witte fosfor in Zuid-Libanon vergiftigt ons allemaal. Het is een langdurige bom’
Ahmad Baydoun | onderzoeker witte fosfor: In een oorlog kan ook de leefomgeving een wapen worden. Zuid-Libanon ligt vol witte fosfor, resten van aanvallen door Israël. „Het is als het ware een…
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My good friend @baydoun.bsky.social with a well-deserved interview in dutch newspaper @nrc.nl about his research on white phoshorus use in South Lebanon, highlighting a form of slow violence that has an impact on the environment and health on the longer term. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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‘De witte fosfor in Zuid-Libanon vergiftigt ons allemaal. Het is een langdurige bom’
Ahmad Baydoun | onderzoeker witte fosfor: In een oorlog kan ook de leefomgeving een wapen worden. Zuid-Libanon ligt vol witte fosfor, resten van aanvallen door Israël. „Het is als het ware een langdur...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Two hours of terror. "Our findings contradict not only Israel's initial account of the attack, but its subsequent accounts as well." New evidence unearthed by Sky News contradicts Israel's official account of the killing of 15 aid workers. news.sky.com/story/two-ho...
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Two hours of terror: Sky News investigation reveals how Israel's deadly attack on aid workers unfolded
New evidence unearthed by Sky News contradicts Israel's official account of the killing of 15 aid workers.
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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
New piece at @bellingcat.com with my colleague Carlos Gonzales looking at the Palestine Red Crescent Society aid convoy that was attacked in southern #Gaza by the IDF in late March and what details we can glean from the audio: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...
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What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza - bellingcat
Hundreds of shots fired at aid convoy that resulted in deaths of multiple aid workers, audio analysis shows.
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Ahmad Baydoun @baydoun.nl · 08/04/2025
I contributed to this @amnesty.org investigation by geolocating 59 incidents and verifying over 347 images showing HD Hyundai machinery used by #Israel to demolish #Palestinian homes, shops, and infrastructure across the West Bank. Full report here: amnesty.or.kr/132930/news/...
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Evan Hill @evanhill.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Damning testimony from the survivor of the killing of 15 Gazan medics and civil defense workers. Munther Abed says IDF soldiers deliberately fired at them and those sent to rescue them, then crushed and buried the cars and bodies. www.dropsitenews.com/p/red-cresce...
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Red Crescent Worker Who Survived Israeli Massacre Recounts Horror
In one of the deadliest attacks on emergency workers in the world in years, Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian first responders and buried them in a mass grave.
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