Gianluca Mezzofiore

Videos, expert analysis and witnesses point to Israeli gunfire in deadly Gaza aid site shooting | CNN A CNN investigation into a deadly incident near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza on Sunday points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their wa...

New investigation: ‘Death and hunger’: Videos, expert analysis and witnesses point to Israeli gunfire in Gaza aid site shooting edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/m...

Proud that two of our investigations into Israel’s war in Gaza have been nominated for #NewsEmmys. Powerful reporting by @tqiblawi.bsky.social, @allegragoodwin.bsky.social, @jomanak.bsky.social, @mickbk.bsky.social, @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social and many more. cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2025/05/01/c...

For about a year, I worked with a retired British academic named Alasdair Spark to solve a mystery: where did the original photo from the end of The Shining come from, and where/when was it captured?
Last week, we finally found the answer.
www.instagram.com/p/DID43LBNPD...

‘Dad, help me… we were targeted by the Israelis’: Audio and video capture last moments of aid workers killed in Gaza | CNN A CNN review of audio and video capturing the attack, photos and satellite imagery of the mass grave, along with interviews with an eyewitness, forensic experts and family members provides a detailed ...

“Come to me, Dad, help me… we were targeted by the Israelis, and they are now shooting at us directly.” Audio and video capture last moments of aid workers killed in Gaza. Yahya Abou-Ghazala, @jeremydiamond.bsky.social, @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social and team report: edition.cnn.com/2025/04/07/m...

The OSMP has added two images published by CNN's @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social of an Israeli M339 tank gun projectile reportedly recovered from a United Nations compound in central Gaza on March 19.

The UN said a Bulgarian staff member died, with five others injured.

osmp.ngo/osmp1214/

Israeli outposts have proliferated in the West Bank since Oct. 7, new analysis shows. With Trump in office, Palestinians fear annexation could be next. | CNN Illegal herding outposts have ballooned by nearly 50% since the war broke out, according to a joint report shared exclusively with CNN by Israeli advocacy groups Peace Now and Kerem Navot, covering da...

Illegal Israeli herding outposts have proliferated in the occupied West Bank since Oct. 7, new analysis reveals. With Trump in office, Palestinians fear annexation could be next.
@allegragoodwin.bsky.social, @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social and Nada Bashir report: edition.cnn.com/2025/03/20/m...

‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal town | CNN A CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, looti...

NEW INVESTIGATION: ‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal town of Sanobar - w/@tqiblawi.bsky.social Sarah Sirgany @allegragoodwin.bsky.social edition.cnn.com/2025/03/17/m...

‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal town | CNN A CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, looti...

CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, looting, arson and sectarian slurs. Bodies were piled in two mass graves. edition.cnn.com/2025/03/17/m...

‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal town | CNN A CNN investigation sheds light on the massacre of an Alawite community in al-Sanobar, or Pine village, where government-aligned forces subjected largely unarmed villagers to summary executions, looti...

NEW INVESTIGATION: ‘Ethnic cleansing!’ Videos show Syrian government-aligned forces reveling in massacre of minorities in coastal town of Sanobar - w/@tqiblawi.bsky.social Sarah Sirgany @allegragoodwin.bsky.social edition.cnn.com/2025/03/17/m...

Drawing on survivor interviews, satellite imagery and verified videos, reporting by @tqiblawi.bsky.social, Sarah El Sirgany, @allegragoodwin.bsky.social and @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social reveals the scale of sectarian violence that played out across Syria's coastal region earlier this month.

NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION FROM @cnn.com

we pieced together the evidence of a massacre of a minority community in a coastal Syrian village

with @tqiblawi.bsky.social Sarah Sirgany and @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social

cnn.com/2025/03/17/middleeast/syria-massacre-alawite-minority-intl-invs/index.html

When I was diagnosed with PTSD about 10 years ago, my boss decided to tell me and the entire team that he had it as well from covering a conflict 20 years earlier. I still feel gratitude for that acknowledgment and how that set the tone for subsequent convos we had as a team on mental health.

A lot has been happening in Sudan but very little is talked about, which is a grave mistake given the SAF & RSF often intensify their attacks around December of every year, using the lack of media attention getting closer to the holidays. But one of the dealiest took place just 2 days ago 1/

How the Assad regime fell so quickly | CNN What was the military strategy behind the takeover of Damascus? CNN’s Katie Polglase and team analyzed over a hundred videos of the final push to take the Syrian capital, Damascus, finding that it cam...

What was the military strategy behind the takeover of Damascus? We pieced together the videos to find out. @allegragoodwin.bsky.social @averyschmitz.bsky.social @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social @isaacyeephoto.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/w...

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1/ New @hrw.org #Sudan report : The Rapid Support Forces & allied militias carried out war crimes in South Kordofan, killing and raping civilians, and looting & destroying homes in attacks that displaced 10s of thousands & left ghost towns in their wake. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

🧵Look towards the light.
As Rebel forces in Syria advanced across Syria & never stopped a key question was why the Regime evaporated. Syria by night provides some clues on how the Regime's social contract collapsed.
Read my analysis here aspistrategist.org.au/just-look-at...
& read on

CNN pieces together how rebel forces took over Aleppo | CNN In just over 72 hours last week, a coalition of Syrian armed rebel groups operating under the banner of Deterrence of Aggression captured the city of Aleppo in a surprise attack, dealing a significant...

We looked into the surprise rebel attack in Aleppo, Syria: how it happened and what the videos tell us. OSINT work by @allegragoodwin.bsky.social @isaacyeephoto.bsky.social @averyschmitz.bsky.social + filming by Alex Platt + editing by Oscar Featherstone

www.cnn.com/2024/12/02/w...

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

Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Cyber attacks, arson and spy ships: How Putin's hybrid war threatens the UK As Ukraine fires British-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia, Britain and the West are braced for Putin's escalation of his hybrid war

Cyber attacks, arson and spy ships: How Putin's hybrid war threatens the UK inews.co.uk/news/cyber-a...

Imagine standing next to Bob Dylan at a Nick Cave concert.

Just joined this platform! Excited to connect with fellow journalists/investigators and anyone who wants to chat about story ideas...

Russian disinformation network with ties to notorious ‘troll factory’ is taking aim at the US election, analysis finds | CNN An investigation by researchers at Clemson University with CNN has found that a spinoff of the Russian “troll factory” that targeted the 2016 US presidential race now appears to be at the heart of a d...

NEW: Russia’s ‘FBI’ was targeting US elections with a barrage of disinformation—just days before Nov. 5

We tracked how this network is carrying out a Russian mercenary’s vision with Clemson's Media Forensics Hub 👇👇

From @gianlucamezzo.bsky.social, Tim Lister, Saskya Vandoorne, and me:

PSA: If one needs to share a link from there, use xcancel.com , in short type 'cancel' after the X in any link and it will display a mirror of the tweet, not giving it any clicks or other traffic.

ie clicking xcancel.com/elonmusk does not contribute to views or advertiser stats

With a lot of people joining Bluesky, what starter packs do you all recommend for people to follow? Bellingcat's can be found here:
bsky.app/profile/bell...

With @eliothiggins.bsky.social joining Bluesky, we've made a little starter pack of previous and current Bellingcat staff and contributors so you can find all of us open source researchers lurking on here! go.bsky.app/HZSzS41