On Saturday morning, a Gazan civilian started a Facebook livestream on the border with Israel.
This livestream went uninterrupted for over 30 minutes and allows us an unprecedented view into the initial Hamas assault, and atrocities, around Nir Oz. (thread)
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One note, the Facebook livestream remained up for at least 7 hours, garnering thousands of reactions.
I have mapped out the entire route taken by the streamer (red line), geolocating over 40 unique points, with major events highlighted.
The stream starts with a burning IDF Merkava Mk.4, destroyed at the border fence.
A number of civilians and Hamas terrorists are milling around. The stream does not show it, but later a group of both armed and unarmed Gazans pull a deceased crewmember out and beat the body.
“Many of these images can be highly distressing, especially if viewed repeatedly and intensely. But their effect can also be cumulative: you may feel alright for a long time until one day, you don’t.”
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.
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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.
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.
Some of the images coming out of Sderot over the last few hours are reaching degrees of horror that I dont really think I can use words to properly describe. Truly disturbing acts of terror directed at civilians.
Update to the previous geolocation, here is the Russian (S-400) SAM battery that was likely targeted by Ukrainian drones early this morning outside of Yevpatoriya.
Imagery is from 2 weeks ago.
And the result.
The location of the battery was leaked last year by a Russian tourist.