Ahmad Baydoun

Jeita Grotto and the Price of Heritage A private wedding in Lebanon’s breathtaking caves shows how even such sites of natural and cultural significance are becoming a privilege of the wealthy

“What does it say about us, as Lebanese, as Arabs, that we rent out our heritage? That the places meant to anchor us have become props for vanity? Perhaps it is not greed alone, but a deeper forgetting, a loss of measure.”

newlinesmag.com/spotlight/je...

After months of verification and mapping, the archive now includes 248 confirmed white phosphorus strikes across South Lebanon (2023-2024).

Only incidents with visual evidence were used, then geolocated, verified, and cross-checked with satellite imagery

Part of my PhD research at TU Delft.

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Shifting Roots: A Lebanese Woman’s Fight to Save Her Olive Trees | DigiDocs

Sumud at it's finest: 81-year-old Nouhad returns to her olive grove in southern Lebanon, bound to the land by love and memory. Israeli incursions and white phosphorus have scorched the soil, but neither people nor roots are so easily uprooted.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV52...

‘De witte fosfor in Zuid-Libanon vergiftigt ons allemaal. Het is een langdurige bom’ Ahmad Baydoun | onderzoeker witte fosfor: In een oorlog kan ook de leefomgeving een wapen worden. Zuid-Libanon ligt vol witte fosfor, resten van aanvallen door Israël. „Het is als het ware een…

In een oorlog kan ook de leefomgeving een wapen worden. Zuid-Libanon ligt vol witte fosfor, resten van aanvallen door Israël. „Het is als het ware een langdurige bom.” buff.ly/Wdge2wz

‘De witte fosfor in Zuid-Libanon vergiftigt ons allemaal. Het is een langdurige bom’ Ahmad Baydoun | onderzoeker witte fosfor: In een oorlog kan ook de leefomgeving een wapen worden. Zuid-Libanon ligt vol witte fosfor, resten van aanvallen door Israël. „Het is als het ware een langdur...

My good friend @baydoun.bsky.social with a well-deserved interview in dutch newspaper @nrc.nl about his research on white phoshorus use in South Lebanon, highlighting a form of slow violence that has an impact on the environment and health on the longer term.

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Two hours of terror: Sky News investigation reveals how Israel's deadly attack on aid workers unfolded New evidence unearthed by Sky News contradicts Israel's official account of the killing of 15 aid workers.

Two hours of terror.

"Our findings contradict not only Israel's initial account of the attack, but its subsequent accounts as well."

New evidence unearthed by Sky News contradicts Israel's official account of the killing of 15 aid workers.

news.sky.com/story/two-ho...

What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza - bellingcat Hundreds of shots fired at aid convoy that resulted in deaths of multiple aid workers, audio analysis shows.

New piece at @bellingcat.com with my colleague Carlos Gonzales looking at the Palestine Red Crescent Society aid convoy that was attacked in southern #Gaza by the IDF in late March and what details we can glean from the audio: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

I contributed to this @amnesty.org investigation by geolocating 59 incidents and verifying over 347 images showing HD Hyundai machinery used by #Israel to demolish #Palestinian homes, shops, and infrastructure across the West Bank.
Full report here: amnesty.or.kr/132930/news/...

Red Crescent Worker Who Survived Israeli Massacre Recounts Horror In one of the deadliest attacks on emergency workers in the world in years, Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian first responders and buried them in a mass grave.

Damning testimony from the survivor of the killing of 15 Gazan medics and civil defense workers. Munther Abed says IDF soldiers deliberately fired at them and those sent to rescue them, then crushed and buried the cars and bodies.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/red-cresce...

Israel Digs In Beyond Its Northern Border Israel has built a growing network of outposts and fortifications in Syria and Lebanon, deepening concerns about a protracted occupation in parts of the two countries.

We found evidence of the IDF setting up watchtowers, creating roads & more within the borders of Syria + Lebanon – with Samuel Granados & Aaron Boxerman www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#Israeli evacuation orders are back in #Beirut after exactly 4 months. The order targets 3 adjacent residential buildings (33.847108, 35.521289), just meters away from a school, and comes during school hours. #Lebanon

A Long Return - Airwars A short film juxtaposing two videos along the same section of Salah al-Din Road, a main thoroughfare connecting north and south Gaza

Since the fragile Gaza ceasefire, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have returned home.

Airwars’ new short film, A Long Return, presents two videos of the same road taken before and after the war, showing how 'home' has been rendered unrecognisable.

long-return.airwars.org

YouTube video by CNN CNN investigates Israeli strikes in ‘lethal range’ of Lebanese hospitals

📢 Watch the shortlisted films in the short-form category of #CIRawards:

@cnn.com investigates 👇
Using open source techniques, CNN verified over 240 airstrikes across Lebanon during the first month of Israel’s offensive, identifying bombs dropped within lethal proximity of hospitals.

A view of northern Gaza as seen from the Israeli side of the fence.

A deadly olive harvest season ends in the West Bank Restrictions and attacks by the Israeli military, together with rampant settler violence, left many Palestinians unable to harvest this year's crop.

A Palestinian woman went to pick olives from her family's trees with her husband and son, in the West Bank village of Faqqu’a. Despite receiving permission from the Israeli army to begin harvesting, a group of soldiers arrived and shot her dead

www.972mag.com/olive-harves...

Nearly all white phosphorus strikes by #Israel in South #Lebanon this past year fall within recently occupied Lebanese territories, as verified and geolocated by our team. This pattern of deliberate contamination blocks displaced residents from safely reclaiming their lands.

Mapped out the current Israeli military presence in #Lebanon and #Syria. The map tracks historical and current zones, showing Israeli expansion over time. Although #Israel claims today's expansions are temporary, the map reveals a strategic geographic pattern emerging.

What does it say about European politicians, who’ve recently said that Syria under the regime was “safe to return to” or that it was “negotiable” to forcibly return (read: deport) refugees to the war-torn country, now that you see the graphic images coming out ot Sednaya Prison?

Over a two-week period, we found that 59 buildings were flattened following Israel’s evacuation warnings in Beirut, some with less than 30 minutes notice. Legal experts warn this could violate International Humanitarian Law and potentially constitute war crimes.

Evacuation orders were frequently issued late at night and exclusively on X (Twitter), suggesting a strategy that may terrorize more than protect. This approach, maximizing fear, severely compromises civilian safety and raises serious human rights violations. #Lebanon

Exclusive: Satellite imagery shows Israeli evacuation warnings during the war may have been used to ‘terrorize’ rather than protect civilians As a cease-fire takes hold in Lebanon, L'Orient Today has investigated the Israeli army's primary method for ‘justifying’ two months of intense bombardment: evacuation notices issued to...

Check out my latest investigation with L'Orient Le Jour. We analyzed satellite imagery to reveal that about 25% of #Israel’s evacuation warnings in #Beirut’s southern suburbs were followed by airstrikes that destroyed much more than their intended targets. today.lorientlejour.com/article/1437...

After a year dedicated to researching the deployment of white phosphorus by Israel in Lebanon, we are proud to launch WhitePhosphorus.info. This platform is an essential resource for tracking this toxic weapon, especially as people begin returning to their lands. #Lebanon

My latest article on the buffer zone created in south Lebanon.

@weatherwar.bsky.social has extensively documented the use of white phosphorus in particular in south Lebanon

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Apocalyptic scenes emerging from #Beirut this afternoon following 20 Israeli evacuation notices in its southern suburbs and an unannounced air strike in central Beirut that leveled a building. #Lebanon

Let's make a more diverse osint starter pack - a 50/50 m/f split and a move away from westerners would be great. I've made a start (and yes, it's currently lots of men/westerners - help me shift the balance!) Can the community help me crowd source this?

go.bsky.app/36JpUBi

Chasing Shadows: Geolocate Images with Bellingcat's Shadow Finder Tool - bellingcat Use this new tool to narrow down your search area from the entire globe to just a handful of countries and locations.

Some recent examples:
The Shadow Finder, a new method for geolocation: www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
A short introduction to creating geolocation proofs: osintteam.blog/making-geolo...
A 3D modelling method to confidently debunk claims about an event’s location: osintteam.blog/proving-a-ne...

This is the targeted shop in the Israeli airstrike tonight on Zuqaq al-Blat in #Beirut. Footage is from Google Street Maps in 2019.

Geolocated the #Israeli airstrike tonight in central #Beirut in Zuqaq al-Blat, about 300 meters away from the the Grand Serail. #زقاق_البلاط #Lebanon Coordinates: 33.892277, 35.500705

Geolocated the #Israeli airstrike that targeted the main water facility in #Tyre, South #Lebanon. This facility is also located within the area designated as a @unesconow.bsky.social World Heritage site, which contains the Roman Hippodrome. Coordinates: 33.265990, 35.211754.