An AFP News Agency Airwars investigation confirmed that an Israeli attack on October 13th killed Reuters videographer Issam Alabdallah and injured several other journalists from Aljazeera, AFP, and Reuters. This 3D model was made to explain the geography and chronology of the strike.

This is an absolute catastrophe. This does not serve our security.

Two viral videos of detained and stripped Palestinians surrendering weapons to Israeli forces in Gaza have prompted speculation about the circumstances of the events and the filming. Benedict Garman and Paul Brown have examined the footage in detail. bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

Much talk around AI is, at best, snake oil and griftery hype, but this was a clear case of an AI-driven tool significantly reducing manual work (and eye strain!) in object detection for reporting.

Ever since 9/11, we have just taken it for granted that certain countries can send drones or bombs into foreign sovereign countries, across national borders, to kill people they’ve decided, without an arrest or trial, are guilty of crimes. But most other countries can’t do this.

The son of our colleague Wael Dahdouh, Hamza, was killed in an Israeli strike along with journalist Mustafa Thuraya. Wael lost his wife, two of his children, and a granddaughter a few weeks ago. May God be with you Wael, RIP Hamza.

Footage filmed today by the astonishingly brave journalists working for Sky News in #Gaza - all the more courageous as two more journos were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Israel has demonstrated how precise they can be with their strikes in the past.. mf 🧵

One of his last interviews as a free man…

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The IDF has entered Nasser Hospital, one of the last functioning left in Gaza. It is the largest hospital in southern Gaza, where more than 1,500 people have been sheltering. Nada Bashir reports on the latest, with some images that are difficult to watch.

“I have to go back.” Speaking just before he returned to Russia, Navalny told me: “I don’t think that I can have such a privilege of being safe in Russia, but I have to go back, because I don’t want this group of killers [to] exist in Russia. I don’t want Putin ruling Russia.”

2024 Afghanistan Journalist of the Year Awardee Mitra Majeedy, ToloNews

You have to watch this immensely revealing and horrifying testimony by Jewish-American humanitarian surgeon Mark Perlmutter who spent 2 weeks in Gaza: "All of the disaster zones I've seen combined - combined - 40 mission trips, 30 years, ground zero,

The burka returns: The Taliban have dictated that women must now be fully hidden from view and it's illegal to hear their voice in public. It's been a chipping away of women's rights over 3 years to return to original Taliban positions. tolonews.com/index.php/afgh…

OK folks, here's what we know so far from #Syria - a 🧵: #Aleppo city has fallen, along with the entire western countryside & much of the south too -- including the international airport & Kuweiris Airbase. A few #Russia airstrikes, but little else.

OK, time to bust another USAID myth. Stephen Miller said on Fox today that USAID is a rogue slush fund. Trump & Elon have made the same accusation. FALSE. They're either ignorant of how USAID spends money, or willfully lying about it. Or... Anyway, caffeinate and read on. 🧵

Reports of sirens and air-defenses active over U.S. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

You should watch the whole discussion between Senator Chris Van Hollen and Green Beret Anthony Agular, but this part really shocked me. This is how Agular found out that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's client was the IDF. At one of the distribution sites in Gaza, some starving kids

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague heidi levine.

How has anyone survived this.