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.
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.
Video showing the destroyed bridge in Sviatohirsk at which crosses the Siverskyi Donets River and connects the Lavra to the city. The city is back under Ukrainian control.
Our new video investigation with @scrippsnews and @bellingcat documenting damage to important cultural heritage sites in Gaza is out.
Overall we looked at 150 sites, most of which are mosques, and which showed signs of being damaged or had been destroyed.
There were many archeological sites in our list, one of which is a 1,500 year old Byzantine mosaic found underneath an olive grove in 2022 near Bureij. At the time, it was hailed as one of the “greatest archaeological treasures ever found in Gaza”. bbc.com/news/world-mid…
The location of the mosaic isn’t online, but we were able to geolocate it using photos from its excavation to an orchard east of Bureij about 1km from the border with Israel.
The excavation outline itself is actually visible in @Maxar imagery from October, as well, as seen here.
Area where reported IDF airstrike & fire took place in western Rafah tonight near the UNRWA facility still had a large amount of IDPs in it in May 24 @planet imagery.
Potential geolocation, possible image of large fire was at "Kuwaiti Peace Camp" just north of the warehouses.
Some additional reference imagery via Getty Images / Anadolu showing the site of the fire at the Kuwaiti IDP camp near the UNRWA logistics center during the daytime (CC: @TuiteroMartin).
Good spot by @Easybakeovensz of apparent munition remnants (US-made Small Diameter Bomb/GBU-39) visible in a video taken at the Kuwaiti Peace Camp shared on Telegram:
The same set of library shelves that are on fire in the background of the photo shared by Younis can be seen in an Instagram story saved by the IUG/Aqsa University Central Library in 2022.
Another note on this since there are people claiming it's AI-generated (?).
You can see matching visuals in other photos from the IUG Central Library's FB page, such as a matching "No Cell Phone" sign that appears to be in a different section.
And just further annotation for the 2022 Instagram video screenshot, in case people are missing what lines up...
While some of the tape on the shelves appears to have been removed over the years (bottom shelves in #37) one tape in particular has the same rip pattern on it.
Video of IDF bulldozer carving "66" and a Star of David into the land is visible in @planet imagery from January 19 in southern Gaza near Al Qarara and the Kisufim Road at 31.379082, 34.353045. Video was filmed between Jan 19 and Jan 16.
Note: Number likely an "86" — apparently a reference to an Israeli social media New Years trend referring to January 1st as "October 86th" since hostages have not been returned yet.
Given this video was filmed in January, it'd make sense there'd be a reference to the trend.
Also not the first Star of David the IDF has carved into Gaza's land. There are a few examples from up north in the first months of the ground invasion.
Nov21 @planet SkySat at 31.543249, 34.544399, near Beit Hanoun. Star of David & what seems to be an attempt at some numbers.
Hamas military statement claims they’re still active in southern Israeli cities including Mishmar Hanegev, Netivot and Ofakim while “engaged in fierce confrontations in Be'eri and Sderot”.
Evidence for this comes from two videos from a Moscow broadcaster showing the strikes.
In the first, the Spasskaya Tower clock shows the time at ~2:27am and shows the drone splash fire on the domed Kremlin building. tvc.ru/news/show/id/2…
In the second video, the time on the Spasskaya Tower clock sits at around 2:43am. You can also see the drone impact more closely resembles the impact in the video with the people present (closer to flagpole, no splash of fire on the roof).