Committed to thorough research and data collection to ensure an accurate representation of the events of Oct 7 and its aftermath. (Nick Burbank is a pseudonym.)
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The @guardian reports that the Israeli military has bombed 21 schools since July. Each time, they have claimed that the school was being used as a Hamas HQ. theguardian.com/world/article/…
First: we want to acknowledge that these are not only incredibly difficult stories, they have been unjustly ignored for decades. Our investigation indicates that the worst incidents - gang-rape, bestiality, child abuse - are corroborated and confirmed. 
1: Nov 2023: IDF soldiers invaded West Bank's al-Fawwar refugee camp, captured & blindfolded a Palestinian man, then hid behind him. The soldier using him as a human shield prepared to shoot over his shoulder, towards Palestinian resistance.
The initial article describes the positive statements by the hostages as possible "Stockholm syndrome", a phenomenon where captives sometimes have positive feelings towards their captors. (Note: we have yet to see Palestinians released by the IDF exhibiting this behavior) 
Though we continue to research this issue, our extensive gender-based violence investigation has led us to conclude thus far that there is insufficient evidence to support a claim that H*mas militants engaged in “systematic sexual violence” on October 7th. oct7factcheck.com/sexual-violence
This is not the first time Israel has attempted to use Google ads to obscure news coverage and drive its narrative. In Jan, @julesaroscoe at @vice reported that Israel was running Google ads to defend itself against allegations of genocide. vice.com/en/article/m7b…
The @NYTimes invited Karmi over in 2015, not to compensate the family but to grant temporary access & a photo op. The editor was taken aback when asked to consider the @NYTimes occupation of this space alongside Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Schwartz’ public approval of the post put her work under the microscope, but it was issues with the integrity of her reporting that caused the NYT to pull a planned podcast on the subject and eventually acknowledge that key pieces of evidence were false.
This new information comes after @theintercept reported that the Be’eri spokesperson Michal Paikin categorically denied that r*pe occurred at the kibbutz on Oct 7. 
His flimsy argument is based on a statistical “analysis” where Wyner cherrypicks a limited dataset to prove his point. He examines only 15 days of casualty data (between the red lines in the graph below) from more than 165 days of conflict. 
The facts are indisputable: people in Gaza are starving because Israeli restrictions on aid prevent food and medicine from reaching them. Compounding this war crime, Israel fires on aid convoys, kills civilians gathering for aid, & destroys food supplies
There are many, many pieces to this story, and it is not an easy one to tell. Misleading mistranslations, uncorroborated narratives, and sources which have not been heard from before or since the NYT spoke with them all complicate the picture. oct7factcheck.com/research-hamas…
In contrast, when Israel bombed Gaza in 2021, @sorayashock was told by @nytimes she shouldn’t work on the story because she was Palestinian.
Josh Paul, a former Biden arms transfer official who resigned in protest of “short-sighted, unjust” & “rushed” arms transfers to Israel after Oct 7, stated today that the US government “has actual knowledge” those arms would be used to commit humans rights violations. Video 👇
One of multiple #friendlyfire incidents on October 7th - @ynetnews reports that @ noon, IDF was instructed to prioritize prevention of hostage-taking over life of hostages using the repealed “Hannibal directive” oct7factcheck.com/Friendly-Fire-…