It's been 365 days of horror in Gaza, following the Oct 7 Hamas attacks and hostage taking. Roundup of key violations I investigated - many have been cited by UN officials, NGOs, and used to take the UK to court to suspend arms sales to Israel. #Israel #Gaza 🧵 Impact on hospitals: How 8/10 hospitals in N Gaza were dismantled in 21 days in Oct-NOv, with Israeli munitions landing on maternity wards and ambulances. IDF told me combat near hospitals is “complicated and may involve incidental hits” #Israel #Gaza

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NEW from me + Guardian team: A visual investigation has detailed the mass destruction of 3 neighbourhoods in Gaza, leading experts to describe it as “domicide”. #Israel #Gaza 🧵

w @Ashley_J_Kirk @elenaukctheguardian.com/world/ng-inter… Using satellite imagery and open-source evidence, the investigation found damage to more than 250 residential buildings, 17 schools and universities, 16 mosques, three hospitals, three cemeteries and 150 agricultural greenhouses. #Israel #Gaza

NEW from me: Over the past month I've been investigating the damage caused to hospitals, health facilities and ambulances in northern Gaza over 3wks in the course of the Israeli offensive against Hamas. 🧵 w/ @elenaukc @Ashley_J_Kirk #Israel #Gaza
theguardian.com/world/2023/dec… We collected and analysed more than 200 pieces of evidence including videos, photos, news footage and satellite imagery from between approximately 21 October and 11 November, and spoke to international humanitarian organisations, to investigate the damage. #Israel #Gaza

NEW from me: We pieced together what happened at Jabalia refugee camp, and confirmed using footage & visual forensics that Israel dropped at least 5 bombs, possibly JDAMs designed to level buildings. w @_EmmaGH @elenaukc
#Gaza #Israel #Jabaliacamp 🧵
theguardian.com/world/2023/nov… IDF spox said cavities seen in images of destroyed camp buildings were created by the collapse of Hamas tunnels BUT weapons experts told us they were left by the use of multiple JDAMs – joint direct attack munitions – in the Israeli airstrike. #Israel

NEW: Bulletproof vests, assassination threats and kidnap plots- Iran and its agents appear to be orchestrating a Europe-wide campaign targeting political activists who are protesting against the regime.
#Iran 🧵
theguardian.com/world/2023/sep… I spent months talking to 15 Iranian campaigners who have been targeted by Iran across the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Sweden. In most cases, they had been warned by security agencies of credible threats to their life from Iran - on European soil.

NEW: A massive new leak shows how Russian company Vulkan has helped FSB, GRU & SVR in cyber warfare — through hacking, disinformation, surveillance and control of sections of the internet.
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theguardian.com/technology/202… One document links a Vulkan tool with the hacking group Sandworm, which the US government said caused blackouts in Ukraine, disrupted the Olympics in South Korea and launched NotPetya, the most economically destructive malware in history.

NEW: Meet ‘Team Jorge’, a hacking and disinformation unit who claim to have covertly meddled in over 30 elections around the world. My first investigation with the Guardian team.
theguardian.com/world/2023/feb… Team Jorge sell a unique software called AIMS, which controls an army of 30,000 bots for #disinformation campaigns — many of them on Twitter. Alongside #OSINT reporters from Le Monde and Der Spiegel, I hunted them down.
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After 4 wonderful years at the BBC, today is my last day. I was the BBC’s first female OSINT expert, the only female conflict journalist with a weapons specialism, and still the only woman of colour in this role. (1/6) It’s been quite the journey. I started in 2018 at BBC Newsnight and then went to work on investigative docs for BBC Arabic & Eye exposing war crimes in Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and human rights abuses in Bahrain, Iran, the Gulf, Russia, China. (2/6)

NEW from BBC Eye + me: China's Silenced Feminist. Since November, we’ve been investigating the disappearance of Sophia Huang Xueqin, a high-profile feminist journalist who kick-started China’s #MeToo movement, for BBC Eye. (1/8) In 2021, Sophia was awarded the prestigious Chevening scholarship to pursue gender studies at the University of Sussex. But in September, on the way to the airport to catch her flight to the United Kingdom, Sophia and fellow activist Wang Jianbing “vanished.” (2/8)

NEW: We’ve been able to visually confirm that a banned cluster bomb was used in last week’s attack on Kramatorsk railway station in Ukraine which killed more than 50.
bbc.com/news/61079356 We found multiple impact points with the signature fanned-out spray outline of shrapnel, around the train station area indicating that submunitions had detonated. Photos by @BBCJoeInwood who visited the site.