Elie Touma

"Quadcopters were emitting baby sounds, playing sounds of screaming women." Palestinians in Gaza say Israel has been using small quadcopter drones, equipped with loudspeakers, to lure them out of their homes and then shoot them. #GazaCrimes

How was this investigation conducted? As journalists in the West sought to portray the war on Gaza as complex and nuanced, a flood of social media posts from Israeli soldiers suggested they regarded it as anything but. We decided to investigate these posts. We expected to have to dedicate considerable resources to geolocation - the use of satellite maps and other sources to identify specific locations - and to the use of facial recognition software to scan the internet to identify the soldiers featured in the photos and videos. What we found, however, was that, for the most part, soldiers posted material in their own names on publicly accessible platforms and often gave details of when and where the incidents depicted took place. Read more: aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/3…