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Visual Investigations at The New York Times
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Two Palestinians showed us first-person videos of what it's like to try and retrieve, and provide, food in Gaza City. By Ang Li, Meg Felling, and me. Heaps of geolocation help too from @fdov21.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

The manifesto is indeed that of the Israeli embassy staffer shooter. He previously used his email address ([email protected]) for the Twitter account @kyotoloather, but was banned after DMing death threats to Will Stancil. More: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... x.com/kyotoleather...

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

Trump claims that a video shows the “burial sites” of “over 1,000” white farmers in South Africa. It doesn't. From @rileymellen.bsky.social and me www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 37 comments

The private plane that the U.S. government used to deport eight migrants to Djibouti/South Sudan (unclear what the final destination is) was previously used in the Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout prisoner swap. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

The New York Times (gifted) article has a very well done shocking visualisation of the destruction of Rafah by Israel. Not damaged by war, but destroyed, razed to the ground.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Israel has rapidly accelerated its destruction of Rafah in April and May. It's hard to understand the magnitude of this, even when spending time analyzing recent satellite imagery. From me, Samuel Granados, Aaron Boxerman, and @rileymellen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 33 days ago • 20 comments

Start with an entry level orange pop and work your way up to an exotic root beer

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Geolocation of a video posted by Younis over on Twitter in this mini-thread: x.com/ytirawi/stat...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

This area in northwestern Rafah has been rapidly developing over the last few weeks, near a still-under-construction hospital that the IDF has been using as a base of operations. It looks similar to the JLOTS area near the doomed American pier. www.google.com/maps/@31.321...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Mohammed al Bardawil, a young witness to the attack on medics who we interviewed in Gaza, was killed at the weekend when an Israeli gunboat fired on Rafah beach. His father Saeed asked our colleague Bilal Shbair today for a photo of them together when Bilal interviewed them.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

This new Times piece on the last month of American bombing of Yemen has some insane details. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 35 days ago • 90 comments

New doc from Zeteo claims to have identified the IDF sniper who killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The man they identify is Captain Alon Scagio, who died in Jenin last June after getting hit with a roadside bomb. zeteo.com/p/who-killed...

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

Our visual analysis shows the remnants of at least three American GBU-39 bombs at the site of the Yemeni migrant detention center that was bombed on Monday. Dozens of migrants died in the strike. From @arijetalajka.bsky.social and me. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Great piece on a psychotic snark subreddit about a young woman on TikTok with cancer (the Redditors were trying to prove that she didn't have cancer) One of the most obsessed critics on Reddit criticizing the young cancer patient is a 53-year-old woman. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/n...

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Fresh Planet imagery shows further destruction along this area, creating what looks like a buffer zone along the eastern edge of Gaza City (Shujaiya)

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

The Pentagon claims that the Sunday blast at a Sanaa market that killed 12 people was actually caused by a misdirected Houthi air defense missile. They mentioned local reports of a video showing a missile with Arabic writing. The video we found was not filmed in Sanaa www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/w...

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

New Planet imagery shows the extent of destruction of Rafah throughout April. These images show March 29 vs. April 21. The first set of images shows the city a bit over a kilometer east of the border. The second set of images shows greenhouses destroyed northeast of the city.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

On Kash Patel's jet-setting lifestyle as the FBI director, a sharp departure from his predecessors. He's used FBI/DoJ private planes to attend a UFC fight in Vegas and an Islanders game in New York From Adam Goldman and (to a lesser extent) me www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 58 days ago • 91 comments

Some fresh 50cm imagery from Planet shows new mass destruction in eastern Gaza City. Among the destroyed buildings is a boys high school (Jamal Abdul Nasser School) www.google.com/maps/@31.485...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments