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Sanjana Varghese

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Wim Zwijnenburg @wammezz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Israel continues its use of #whitephosphoros in #Lebanon, despite the serious risk of civilians exposure and wider concerns over impacts on the environment and livelihoods. We spoke with @sanjanamv.bsky.social of the @nytimes.com , joined by @baydoun.nl and others 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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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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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
NYT team Erika Solomon, @sanammahoozi.bsky.social @sanjanamv.bsky.social interviewed Iranians and collected witness videos to capture the unrest that led to widespread protests this weekend. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/w...
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Inside Iran’s Protests: How a Plunging Currency Set Off Wide Unrest
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Video analysis clearly contradicts what Noem and Trump claim about the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. By @devonlum.bsky.social @robinsteinnyt.bsky.social Ainara Tiefenthaler Courtney Brooks for @nytimes.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCv...
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Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
YouTube video by The New York Times
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
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Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We have a job going on our team in London 🗞️ www.nytco.com/careers/job-...
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Video Journalist, UGC News Verification | The New York Times Company
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
New video piece on the Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital that killed six journalists. From @ckoettl.bsky.social, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, and Natalie Reneau www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a sec...
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Abhorrent. “The soldiers film people fighting over the aid, and once it’s finished, they throw teargas to disperse the crowd. I saw displaced people who couldn’t get any aid picking pasta from the sand.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza
A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughter
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Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We're hiring for a motion designer on our video team in London. Come work with us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
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Motion Designer, Video
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Truly impressive investigative work. Indeed difficult, but vital to watch. In addition to @janinadill.bsky.social's analysis, a few LOAC notes: --no claim of warning prior to firing on ambulances --commander's failure to punish can also be war crime --IDF personnel may face universal jx abroad
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Critical @nytimes.com visual Investigation of the IDF attack against three Red Crescent Vehicles. This is hard to watch, but we mustn't look away. With all available information I struggle to see how the attacks analysed here could be anything but a war crime. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza
Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Latest: The IDF investigated itself, but questions remain about how Israeli soldiers closed around on and fired for over six minutes at rescue workers who were unarmed, in uniform and praying, killing all of them. Our video investigation reconstructs what happened. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Six Deadly Minutes: How Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Rescue Workers in Gaza
Israel’s military said it was reacting to an immediate threat when it killed 15 medics and first responders in Gaza in March. But eyewitness accounts and an analysis of videos, audio and autopsy repor...
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Reported from Gaza, Israel, West Bank, Egypt, London and Ireland by Bilal Shbair, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, @ckoettl.bsky.social, Vivian Yee, Malachy Browne, Farnazfa Fassihi, Isabel Kershner, Fatima AbdulKarim. Video edited in New York & London by Natalie Reneau, Jon Hazell and Alexander Cardia.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Our investigation naming & linking RSF commanders to war crimes in Sudan was nominated for the #NewsEmmys. 🙏 Watch it here: youtu.be/H231YlstDKk By @sanjanamv.bsky.social @ckoettl.bsky.social Natalie Reneau @declanwalsh.bsky.social Aaron Byrd with @cen4infores.bsky.social & Ayin Sudan.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
For about a year, I worked with a retired British academic named Alasdair Spark to solve a mystery: where did the original photo from the end of The Shining come from, and where/when was it captured? Last week, we finally found the answer. www.instagram.com/p/DID43LBNPD...
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.
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Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
There's been a spike in Russian forces executing Ukrainian prisoners of war in the past year – we tried to unpick the reasons why, with Kim Barker, Yurii Shyvala + many more www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Russia Executes P.O.W.s Without Caring Who Watches, Ukraine Says
Live drone footage allows Ukraine to observe what it views as war crimes unfold in real time, soldiers say.
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Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We found evidence of the IDF setting up watchtowers, creating roads & more within the borders of Syria + Lebanon – with Samuel Granados & Aaron Boxerman www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Israel Digs In Beyond Its Northern Border
Israel has built a growing network of outposts and fortifications in Syria and Lebanon, deepening concerns about a protracted occupation in parts of the two countries.
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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Airwars has won an Overseas Press Club award for our investigation into civilians killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. The Kim Wall Award recognises creative and dynamic storytelling. We are honoured to be recognised alongside organisations such as NYT, WSJ and others. x.com/opcofamerica...
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump moves to close Pentagon office focused on curbing civilian death. Officials are drafting a proposal to defund and potentially ‘disestablish’ the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, though Congress would have to approve doing so. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump moves to close Pentagon office focused on curbing civilian deaths
The Trump administration is laying groundwork to wind down efforts to reduce civilian harm in U.S. military operations.
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Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Sudan Witness is continuing to monitor and document further footage coming out of Wad Madani and Gezira state, some of which indicates that there may have been violence against unarmed people in civilian clothing. Flash report 👇
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SAF takeover Wad Madani
SAF recaptures key city of Wad Madani
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Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Our recent video investigation on the R.S.F, a paramilitary group in Sudan, now has Arabic subtitles – you can watch it here youtu.be/H231YlstDKk
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How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan | Visual Investigation
YouTube video by The New York Times
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Today the US declared the war in Sudan a genocide. It sanctioned the RSF's leader Hemeti and companies supplying his paramilitary forces. Last week we ran this video investigation by @sanjanamv.bsky.social & others naming RSF commanders overseeing atrocities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H231...
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How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan | Visual Investigation
YouTube video by The New York Times
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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Proud of the Sudan Witness team at @cen4infores.bsky.social and the work with @nytimes.com to track the commanders in Sudan responsible for some of the horrific events happening in the country. A painful but impactful documentary. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan
Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/12/2024
Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times reveals widespread atrocities in Sudan committed by a shadowy paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces — often under commanders' watch.
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Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan
Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...
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Sanjana Varghese @sanjanamv.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
For nearly two years, a shadowy paramilitary group – the Rapid Support Forces – has been terrorising Sudan. We spent months collecting evidence that identified commanders and revealed potential war crimes happening under their watch. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: How ‘Trophy’ Videos Link Paramilitary Commanders to War Crimes in Sudan
Visual evidence collected and analyzed over months by The New York Times identifies the commanders leading an opaque paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, as fighters under their watch commit ...
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Imogen Piper @imogenpiper.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Our story draws on testimony and verifies videos to trace acts of violent retribution and extrajudicial killings across Syria post Rebel takeover. w/ @ntabrizy.bsky.social, @leloveluck.bsky.social, Loveday Morris, Susan Haidamous and Mustafa Salim wapo.st/49IXjeO
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Revenge attacks in post-Assad Syria fuel fear and mistrust
Across Syria, the country’s rebel leaders are struggling to contain revenge attacks, as vigilantes seize on the chaos of the moment to settle personal scores.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
EXCLUSIVE: During his years at Guantanamo a Malaysian prisoner did forensic-style sketches showing his torture by the CIA. They are now part of his sealed court record. But we have obtained them exclusively for you to see. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...
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Prisoner’s Self-Portraits of C.I.A. Torture Surface From Sealed Court Record
“This is what his nightmares are all about,” said a lawyer for a now-confessed war criminal who spent years at Guantánamo Bay.
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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Hear from survivors of war crimes & potential crimes against humanity committed as part of attacks in South Kordofan during which RSF killed, raped, injured dozens of civilians, and looting & destroying homes that displaced 10s of thousands www.hrw.org/news/2024/12... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj8P...
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Sexual Slavery in Sudan
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Declan Walsh @declanwalsh.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Exclusive — A luxury jet, a secret cargo, and the gold rush propelling Africa's biggest war. How a gold trade that Sudanese once hoped would lift their country is turning out to be its downfall. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...
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The Gold Rush at the Heart of a Civil War (Gift Article)
Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight.
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thanks for the nudge. cc @trbrtc.bsky.social go.bsky.app/3a2seQC
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Mnemonic Labs is looking for an open source investigator for their work on Ukraine. mnemonic.org/en/about/job...
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Curating visual documentation for justice and human rights
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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.
The map displays a geographic representation of events and movements involving Russian fixed-wing aircraft on December 2, 2024, across the Idlib and Latakia regions in Syria. Key observations are annotated with timestamps and locations, including:

Idlib City: Reports of Russian aircraft circling and initial reports of an airstrike near medical facilities.

Jabal Arba’in and Jabal Al-Zawye: Aircraft flying northward.

Ma’rat Tamsrin and Maaret Elnaasan: Aircraft flying east and northeast, respectively.

Hadir, Aleppo: Aircraft observed circling.

Hmeimim Airbase, Latakia: Aircraft flying southeast.

The map highlights observed flight paths and activity patterns of Russian aircraft in the region.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New: Israel is greatly expanding the buffer zone around the Netzarim Corridor. We counted more than 600 structures destroyed there since September. And Israel has built at least 19 bases there. From Aaron Boxerman, @rileymellen.bsky.social, Patrick Kingsley, and me. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/w...
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Israel Builds Bases in Central Gaza, a Sign It May Be There to Stay
In recent months, soldiers have demolished more than 600 buildings to create a buffer area and expanded a network of bases, a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and video footage shows.
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A Russian spy ring was tasked with kidnapping and/or murdering my two colleagues, Christo Grozev and Roman Dobrokhotov, a UK court has now heard. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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Russian spying ring ‘planned honeytrap to bait journalists’
Two Bulgarian men have pleaded guilty to spying for Russians in the UK
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Bashar Deeb / بشار ديب @bdeeb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
📣 Syrian journalists, artists, architects and activists residing in Europe, this is a chance to attend a free 4 days extensive training in digital investigations techniques with @lhreports.bsky.social in Berlin forms.gle/hwn7S8tXtBx2...
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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”
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William Christou @willchristou.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Breaking- A Guardian investigation can reveal Israel used a US munition to target & kill 3 journalists in south Lebanon on 25 Oct, a potential war crime. Israeli surveillance tech & use of precision bomb means it likely knew it was targeting journalists. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Killing of journalists in Israeli strike could be a war crime, legal experts say
Israel used US munition to target and kill three members of the press in Lebanon, Guardian investigation reveals
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Billions of coordinates sold by a US data broker exposed the movements of thousands of US military & intel personnel—from nuclear vaults and NSA hubs to their homes and brothels. The DoD knows the data is out there but can’t stop its sale. It’s putting everyone at risk www.wired.com/story/phone-...
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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Since he's not on this site, I'll post this here. Younis Tirawi found that the IDF has turned north Gaza's only water desalination plant into a military base. It's located just north of Gaza City, and satellite imagery confirms the presence of military vehicles. www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-water...
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Israeli Troops Have Turned North Gaza’s Only Desalination Station Into a Military Base
Israeli troops hung a sign announcing northern Gaza’s only desalination station is now an "operational compound"
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Malachy Browne @malachy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
You can follow the NYTimes Visual Investigations team on this bsky list. Will add more as they sign up here. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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