Today we released our first ever short film - a result of the continuous ambition and innovation in our small investigative unit, tirelessly working with our casualty recorders to hold the powerful to account.
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This might be one of our most important stories yet.
In a truly team effort, our journalists worked with our casualty recorders to identify where and how 3,000 civilians were killed in three weeks in Gaza.
gaza-civilians.airwars.org
To put this in context: the number of deaths we investigated for those first three weeks is almost half of the number of civilians we documented killed in eight years of the US air war against ISIS.
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Being nominated across multiple @AmnestyUK Media Awards for exposing the UK MoD’s poor civilian harm position supports our case that transparency on harm caused is in the public interest.
We’re still waiting for action from the MoD based on our findings.
Airwars is thrilled to be nominated three times for our investigative work at the @AmnestyUK Media Awards.
A brief thread:
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Our team are going from strength to strength - brilliant recognition today of @sanjanamv and her excellent data journalism, the sleuthing as always from @Nikolaj_Houmann and great collab with @derspiegel team.
Airwars is thrilled to win a Sigma Data Award in partnership with @derspiegel for our investigation into the Iranian-made Shahed drone.
@sigmaawards
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Phenomenal work from the latest addition to our investigations team, @nwalkerdesign, who together with @azul_demonte and @sanjanamv has made sense of a complicated but hugely significant court case for civilians harmed by international forces.
airwars.org/investigation/du…
Brilliant recognition of our endlessly hardworking investigative team in holding the UK Government to account for its poor record on civilian harm and military transparency.
Our investigative series with @guardian & @_EmmaGH, on the hidden victims of Britain's airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, was shortlisted in the 'Outstanding Investigative Reporting' category at the Fetisov Journalism Awards. fjawards.com/events/shortlis…
“Testimony in open court from a senior ministry official raised profound questions about Britain’s capacity, and its political will, to monitor and investigate civilian deaths caused by its armed forces.”
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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This is just the first iteration of our new tool.
Next we'll be building in new languages, conflicts and munition types, and working collaboratively to ensure open source investigations are informed by reliable analysis.
Amazing work from @joedyke and his team, as always.
The resources page of the new Open Source Munitions Portal includes explainer videos about four main munition categories:
Air-delivered bombs, artillery, mortars and rockets/missiles.
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Every week we're going to be releasing a new set of casualty records from Gaza since October 7th.
Each incident reflects the tireless efforts of our small but mighty team @airwars, including all our volunteers who have so generously given us their time.
airwars.org/conflict/israel-…
Fantastic achievement for our brilliant investigation team - our first ever documentary, reflecting months of diligent forensic open source research from @joedyke @sanjanamv @imogen_piper and moving visual storytelling from @julnueno and @azul_demonte. Well done team!
Airwars is thrilled to be nominated for a Media Freedom Award innovation award with our partners @VICE.
Our year-long joint visual investigation told the story of a deadly ISIS prison break in a US-funded prison in Syria.
societyofeditors.org/events/…
In one of our most challenging casualty recording tasks to date, our brilliant research team at @airwars have just released an essential new resource on how harm was reported through open source channels during the intense battle of Kharkiv.
airwars.org/news/battle-of-k…
Our new Ukrainian colleagues were trained and guided by our Syrian researchers - with so many of the patterns of harm we identified tragically echoing those stories we have been documenting for nearly ten years across the Middle East.
airwars.org/research/pattern…
Last week the @airwars team met in person for the first time ever. We sat in Beirut and hatched a plan for the future of our organisation.
Today we can already start to show you what that future might look like.
airwars.org/investigation/br…
Making front page of The Guardian today - our new investigation shows how a bold combination of on the ground reporting, forensic visual analysis, and diligent, robust research can be used to challenge one of the world's most powerful militaries.
theguardian.com/world/2023/m…
. @julnueno has transformed the way we at @airwars tell stories - this piece is just the beginning of an exciting new year for our investigations team. Big congrats to @joedyke in collab with @VICENews + the talented @sanjanamv @imogen_piper and @azul_demonte
For 12 months, Airwars & @VICENews have been investigating the Islamic State's most daring attack in years - a prison break in Syria.
This immersive article takes you inside the assault - and the US failures that allowed it to happen.
airwars.org/investigation/sy…
‘Their cases may be in the past to the Pentagon, but for the families I represent, the harm is present’ - the brilliant @joanna_nm continues to hold DoD to account for refusing to meaningfully respond to credible cases of civilian harm.
On @just_security today, I am publishing for the first time the 2021 letters @CJTFOIR sent two Iraqi families bombed by the U.S.-led Coalition.
The families requested condolence payments for loved ones injured and killed.
The Coalition said no.
justsecurity.org/84563/under…
@tstloc01_1059 and @georgiaedwardz at it again, this time with the brilliant team at @detoxconflict, showing how we can quantify and capture the long-term effects of urban warfare
Today, we launched a new visualisation in our 'mapping urban warfare' series, produced in partnership with @detoxconflict.
We explore the deadly and complex effects of the 11 day conflict in the Gaza Strip in May 2021, both civilian & environmental harm.
airwars.org/conflict-data/ma…
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Moving tribute this morning - and a historic day as over 80 states signed on to a new declaration on the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. Now to implementation…
Dublin Conference against Urban Bombing today: HI is holding a ceremony to honour the 280,000 civilian victims of urban bombing over the past 12 years. States must say no to this barbaric practice #StopBombingCivilians
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“Civil society and media reporting, as well as U.S. government-commissioned research, have presented credible evidence that many cases of civilian harm have been erroneously dismissed due to faulty reviews of evidence.”
NEW: @SenWarren @SenatorLeahy @SenatorDurbin @RepMalinowski @RepJasonCrow @RepSaraJacobs urge @SecDef to review past cases of civilian harm for acknowledgement & amends as part of ongoing CHMR-AP process: malinowski.house.gov/media/p…
Great discussions this week at #PAXPoC2022 - big thanks to the @PAXPoC team for bringing us all together.
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