OSINTtechnical Profile picture
Oct 9, 2023 16 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Mapping and timing the atrocities at the Nova Festival near Rei’m on Saturday morning (long thread).

Working with new drone footage, multiple sets of satellite imagery, and videos, it was possible to assemble a small idea of what happened in a small area.

Note- content warning
Baseline imagery with notation here. The Festival was held 1.3 km from Re'im and 5.2 km from the Gaza border.

Imagery here is 0.5m Pleades from yesterday, 10/8. Excuse the large cloud, this is actually a composite of multiple cloudy images.
Image
Image
First footage seen is early in the morning on the 7th. Sunrise was around 6:40 AM local.

This shot was taken right in front of the central pavilion, people are confused and unsure of where to go while security works to evacuate people east.
Second clear shot appears to be a bit later, in one of the fields to the east of the event venue.

Not 100% sure but this may have been taken at the edge of the treeline a few hundred meters east of the venue.
Image
Image
This video was likely filmed in the same field as the last photo, as the same group of abandoned/stopped vehicles can be seen.
As rescuers were going through vehicles, one group found a working dashcam and pulled the footage with GPS location and timestamps. The footage was filmed at 31.3989, 34.4707, north of the central pavilion.

🚨Warning: the following images are censored but highly disturbing. Image
At 9:23:14 (clock not verified) a Hamas militant can be seen dragging away a civilian. Image
At 9:23:41, this militant executes a wounded civilian behind the silver sedan. Image
This militant can be seen looking for additional civilians at 9:24:11 Image
Next dashcam clip is from nearly 3 hours later

At 12:09, another loose group of individuals arrive. They appear slightly different; only one is armed, and the unarmed individuals carry stolen items.

Two of the unarmed individuals rifle through the executed civilian's pockets.
This one is carrying several items. Image
3 minutes later, another group arrives. They begin to go through the abandoned vehicle, taking out a suitcase and going through it.
At this point, Sentinel-2 low-resolution imagery was acquired around noon. Multiple areas of the festival ground can be seen burning. Image
Most civilians who were not caught in the western part of the venue had fled to the east at this point.
From the drone footage alone, I was able to discern at least 35 destroyed or severely damaged vehicles (red) and 89 abandoned vehicles (yellow).

Additional vehicles were present in the event area, but I could not tell if they were first responders. Image
Israeli authorities recovered 260 bodies from the site, mostly civilians.

Full caveat, this is a limited view constrained by both time and resources.

If you wish to build off of the work I have done, feel free to reach out to me.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with OSINTtechnical

OSINTtechnical Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @Osinttechnical

May 30
Overnight, Ukrainian attack drones struck Russia’s Taganrog airfield, and for the first time, successfully destroyed a pair of Tu-142 Bear-F long-range maritime patrol aircraft.
(47.1978648, 38.8676588)

t.me/robert_magyar/…Image
Image
Seems that one was actually a rare Tu-142MR communications relay aircraft for ballistic missile submarines.
Read 4 tweets
May 29
Ukrainian mid-range attack drones are also starting to lay landmines on key Russian supply routes deep behind the frontline in southern Ukraine.

The mines are reportedly magnetically fuzed and designed to detonate when a sufficiently large vehicle passes over or near them. Image
Image
Small AV blast landmine, likely manufactured earlier this year. Image
Deployment cassette carrying at least 48 mines. Image
Read 4 tweets
May 27
Early this morning, the Ukrainian Air Force conducted a wide-ranging cruise missile attack (likely using Franco/British Storm Shadow/Scalps), hitting key Russian aviation targets in Voronezh, Sevastopol, and Taganrog. Image
Image
Image
Russia's Black Sea Fleet Aviation headquarters in Sevastopol:
Read 5 tweets
May 3
The Trump-announced US mission to guide ships out of the Persian Gulf will not involve US Navy escorts -WSJ

The US will instead instruct ships on safe avenues of passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and coordinate with shipping and insurance companies.
Read 5 tweets
May 2
American satellite imagery providers, including Google and Apple, have started censoring key Kuwaiti airbases hit during the Iran War.

Seen here, Ali Al Salem Air Base on Google Earth (left), and Apple Maps (right). Image
Image
Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base has been derezzed to roughly 10m on Google and 30-100m on Apple. Image
Image
Notably, this only seems to have affected certain American providers and some airbases in Kuwait.

Camp Buehring, an American-run base in Northern Kuwait, remains uncensored. Image
Read 5 tweets
Apr 2
Trump's chief of staff was "concerned aides were... telling Trump what he wanted to hear instead of what he needed to hear. " -Time

The President has begun many recent mornings watching video clips compiled by military officials of battlefield successes. Image
"Trump told them he wants to wind down the campaign, wary of a protracted conflict that could hobble Republicans heading into the midterms. At the same time, he wants the operation to be a decisive success. "

time.com/article/2026/0…
"As preparations for the war began, the Administration believed it had a winning formula. The U.S. would deliver an opening strike so overwhelming Tehran’s only viable response would be limited retaliation—enough to satisfy domestic audiences without inviting more attacks."
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(