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Evan Hill
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Open source and visual forensic investigations @washingtonpost | Co-host @schlockawepod | There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
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Nov 1 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Our new investigation (linked below) finds that nearly 6,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed in southern Lebanon, around 80% of them since Israel’s Oct. 1 invasion. I’ll go into some of our findings and work here 🧵: Image To conduct this analysis, we relied on @coreymaps and @jamonvdh’s excellent damage maps and estimates, which are based on Sentinel-1 satellite radar analysis. Combined with Microsoft building footprints, they allow you to make a map of damage (in red) that can look like this: Image
Oct 18 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Earlier this month, I read Ezra Klein's interview with Franklin Foer, the author of a recent sweeping piece in The Atlantic looking back at the Biden administration's Gaza policy, in which Foer made an interesting claim about Biden's "red line" on Rafah in March. Klein pointed out that Biden said invading Rafah would be a red line, and then Israel went ahead and did it anyway. Foer replied that, from the Biden team's perspective, they did enforce the red line, by making Israel alter its invasion plan and do it in a "pinpoint way." Image
Oct 17 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a house in Rafah’s devastated Tel al-Sultan refugee camp, around 170 meters from active Israeli military positions, according to @planet satellite imagery and visuals released by the IDF:
washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/…Image @JakeGodin geolocated the house where Sinwar was killed:
Oct 1 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Round-up of verified Iran ballistic missile strike videos:

1. A strike in Glilot, Tel Aviv, possibly near Mossad headquarters, verified by @TwistyCB (POV: 32.162814, 34.814391)
2. A crater in Glilot, Tel Aviv, also possibly near Mossad headquarters, possibly the result of the strike seen in video 1. Verified by @fab_hinz (32.148475, 34.80782)
Aug 15 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
On June 8, the Israeli military employed heavy airstrikes across a densely populated Gaza refugee camp during a midday hostage rescue operation, killing scores of Palestinians. Our new investigation reconstructs one of the deadliest days of the war: wapo.st/4fEws61 The Post reviewed and mapped more than 100 videos and photos, spoke to 19 witnesses and analyzed satellite imagery to reconstruct the raid, which killed 274 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Image
Jul 30 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
New: Two sources and a Post video analysis reveal how a local police officer, shooting from the ground a little over 100 meters away, fired a key first shot at Trump shooter Thomas Crooks, after which Crooks never fired again: wapo.st/3WI7Ul3 A member of Butler County's SWAT team, standing outside behind the stage and using an M4 rifle, fired a shot at Crooks from around 110 meters away less than a second after Crooks ended a volley of eight shots, The Post found. Image
Jul 17 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
The Post analyzed videos, satellite imagery and terrain to build a 3D model and reconstruct Trump's attempted assassination. We found multiple security gaps, including obstructed views and a failure to prevent the shooter from accessing the roof 🧵wapo.st/3Lwyt6k How Thomas Matthew Crooks got onto the roof a little more than 400 feet from Trump remains unclear, but it was the day's first and arguably biggest failure. Bystanders spotted him crawling up the roof about two minutes before he opened fire, and tried to warn police:
Dec 23, 2023 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
In Gaza, Israel has waged what may be the 21st century's most destructive war, a new visual investigation by The Post has found, destroying more buildings in seven weeks than in Aleppo in three years or in Mosul or Raqqa in one year.

Free link: wapo.st/3TErVYK The Post also found that Israel has repeatedly bombed near hospitals, which are protected under the laws of war. Satellite imagery showed dozens of craters near 17 of northern Gaza's 28 hospitals, including 10 suggesting the use of 2,000-pound bombs, the largest in regular use.
Dec 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NBC reports on the images of Palestinian men stripped to their underwear and detained in Beit Lahiya, Gaza.

One is Diaa al-Kahlout, a journalist for @The_NewArab's Arabic service. Others are relatives of Hani Almadhoun, a DC-based fundraiser for UNRWA: nbcnews.com/news/world/isr…
Image Almadhoun said his three relatives, all civilians, were by the Israelis less than 24 hours after their detention. They had been taken to an IDF-controlled wedding venue not far away, where they were interrogated and photographed before their release.
Dec 3, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Earlier this week, a journalist in Gaza made one of the war's grimmest discoveries: four dead babies, their bodies decomposing on the beds in Al-Nasr Hospital where they had been left. This is the story of what happened: [paywall free] wapo.st/47GKLm8
Image It was Nov. 10 and the height of the Israeli military's assault on Gaza City. The medical complex housing Al-Nasr Hospital was surrounded by Israeli forces, and director Bakr Qaoud said they'd sent an ultimatum: Get out or be bombarded.
Nov 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
New images taken this morning by @Maxar show an enormous crowd of displaced Palestinians filing through two structures on Salah al-Din road at this location: 31.474, 34.436. More on those structures in the next tweet.
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Image This video of the same location, posted on Monday and geolocated by The Post, shows the crowd filing through what looks like two shipping containers. It alleges that a facial recognition camera is involved.
Nov 17, 2023 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
The Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel was the deadliest single attack in the nation's history. Our team has spent the weeks since reconstructing it in detail. Our new visual investigation shows how Israel's vaunted "Iron Wall" crumbled [free link]: wapo.st/3QHjicL
Image Our investigation shows how Israel's over-reliance on a high-tech but lightly-defended fence — equipped with remote-controlled guns and far-seeing cameras, and upgraded in 2021 for about $1 billion — enabled Hamas to quickly overcome it and storm through.
Nov 15, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
The IDF has begun releasing visuals from their raid on Al-Shifa Hospital last night. They reportedly spent at least 10 hours inside parts of the complex. Here's a breakdown of what they claim to have found 🧵 In an MRI room, a "grab bag" (the IDF spokesman's term) containing an AK-style rifle, cartridges, grenades, and a uniform
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Oct 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Strikes on the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed and injured hundreds of people Tuesday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and the director of Gaza’s Indonesian hospital. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/…
The IDF has reportedly taken responsibility for the strikes
Oct 27, 2023 • 30 tweets • 9 min read
Fighters in Gaza launched rockets that flew in the direction of al-Ahli Hospital 44 seconds before an explosion there killed at least 100 people on Oct. 17, The Post found.

Our comprehensive new look into the worst strike of the Gaza war thus far: wapo.st/3tG0IKf We triangulated the rocket launch to a place southwest of al-Ahli Hospital that matched the location the IDF has identified as the launch site of a misfired rocket that hit the hospital. We also geolocated the barrage’s initial path and found it flew in the hospital's direction. Image
Oct 12, 2023 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
New: Hamas took at least 64 captives into the Gaza Strip during fighting that began Saturday, at least 49 of whom appeared to be civilians, nine of them children, according to a review of visual evidence by The Post. Our latest investigation here: washingtonpost.com/investigations… Neither Israel nor Hamas has said exactly how many people are being held in Gaza, but the issue has wracked families in Israel and abroad and looms large in advance of a possible invasion. In total, we found visual evidence that fighters took at least 106 people captive.
Oct 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Indian Prime Minister Modi's party going all in on Western-style conspiratorial / antisemitic imagery, depicting opposition leader Rahul Gandhi as a puppet of George Soros: In a previous tweet, the BJP had depicted Gandhi as the 10-headed demon king Ravan, which the opposition coalition opposing Modi has described as incitement to kill Gandhi: hindustantimes.com/india-news/con…
Jun 6, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Videos now seeming to confirm the destruction of this major dam near Kherson
May 13, 2023 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Alleged leaker Jack Teixeira foresaw a violent struggle against Blacks, political liberals, Jews, and gay and transgender people, who would make life intolerable for people like him. A sweeping new profile by @samueloakford @chrisd9r & @shaneharris: washingtonpost.com/national-secur… The Post obtained previously unpublished screenshots from Texeira's Discord server, recordings of members playing games together, and interviewed several people close to him, including someone who had lengthy private phone and video calls over the course of several years.
Apr 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Exclusive: The U.S. fears that the Wagner group is trying to establish a “confederation” of anti-Western states in Africa and is planning ways to hit their bases and business fronts with strikes, sanctions and cyber operations, according to leaked docs. washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/… One document lists nearly a dozen “kinetic” and other options that could be pursued as part of “coordinated U.S. and allied disruption efforts.” The files propose providing targeting information to help Ukraine forces kill Wagner commanders.
Apr 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The US warned of the encirclement of Bakhmut as recently as January and suggested Kyiv cut its losses and let the city go, according to a top secret assessment that said Russian advances since November “had jeopardized Ukraine’s ability to hold the city" washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/… One bullet point encouraged Ukraine to target massed Russian forces with “dual purpose improved conventional munitions” — artillery and missiles more commonly known as cluster munitions — to counter assault waves.