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BBC Verify correspondent / @BBCNews [email protected] Signal merlynthomas.23
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New videos show executions after RSF militia takes key Sudan city. BBC Verify identified the shooting of an unarmed man sat amid dozens of bodies in the city of el-Fasher. We identified one RSF fighter, Abu Lulu, killing unarmed men in multiple videos. https://t.co/Lpfq12axzw
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RSF troops executed a number of unarmed people after seizing el-Fasher, videos reviewed by BBC Verify show.
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. https://t.co/tfCnJB3iXR
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Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
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Reporting with @MwaiPetrov @Matt_Murphy15 + Richard Irvine-Brown.
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Outside el-Fasher, verified videos show dozens of dead bodies in civilian clothing - some of whom appear to be women - lying in a trench along the sand berm made by the RSF. The devastation is visible from space.
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Footage posted online suggested that paramilitary fighters intended to unleash violence against people in el-Fasher. Abu Lulu, one RSF fighter we identifed across graphic footage, posted a video saying, "If you do not surrender, we will end you and you will die like this."
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Videos shared with us suggested that the RSF sought to impose an aid blockade. Footage shows a man with his hands and feet tied behind his back, hanging upside down from a tree with metal chains. The man filming accused him of trying to smuggle supplies into the besieged city.
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Yale analysts also accused the RSF of "conducting clean-up of their alleged mass atrocities". BBC Verify measured white shapes seen in the hospital courtyard on 30 Oct 1.6m-2m in length - similar to the height of an adult and consistent with a body in a burial shroud.
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'Our job is only killing' - how Sudan's brutal militia carried out a massacre We investigated dozens of graphic videos, tracked fighters across social media and analysed satellite imagery. All of which point to a mass killing spree by the RSF. https://t.co/evQXQ6lAGy
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BBC Verify tracks how the RSF killed unarmed people in a massacre that humanitarian officials believe left 2,000 dead.
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The RSF have posted a video purporting to show the arrest of Abu Lulu - the man BBC Verify identifed carrying out executions of unarmed men in el-Fasher. Footage shows trucks arriving at Shala Prison on the outskirts of the city. https://t.co/3zOsjfFbor
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RSF troops executed a number of unarmed people after seizing el-Fasher, videos reviewed by BBC Verify show.
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New videos show executions after RSF militia takes key Sudan city. BBC Verify identified the shooting of an unarmed man sat amid dozens of bodies in the city of el-Fasher. We identified one RSF fighter, Abu Lulu, killing unarmed men in multiple videos. https://t.co/Lpfq12axzw
bbc.com
RSF troops executed a number of unarmed people after seizing el-Fasher, videos reviewed by BBC Verify show.
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For Palestinians, a line on a map can be the difference between life and death. BBC Verify found Israel is controlling more of Gaza than agreed in the ceasefire deal. Israel said anyone who crossed its "yellow line" would be “met with fire”. https://t.co/eYIVqyG7QL
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Israel has placed boundary markers up to 520m deeper inside Gaza than expected under the ceasefire deal with Hamas.
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Congratulations to the BBC winners @londonpressclub awards. @BowenBBC for Broadcaster of the Year @ChrisMasonBBC Political Journalist of the Year @LauraScott__ Sports Journalist of the Year @SueM1tchell @joelmoors Hugh Cudlipp Award @MerlynThomas @mariannaspring highly commended
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@benedictgarman @emmapenggelly @andreas_krieg The IDF didn't address the allegations when approached by BBC Verify, stating simply that: "IDF troops under the Southern Command have begun marking the Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip to establish tactical clarity on the ground."
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@benedictgarman @emmapenggelly Multiple experts suggested the blocks were intended to create a "buffer zone" between Palestinians and IDF troops. "This gives the IDF space to manoeuvre and create a 'kill zone' against potential targets" @andreas_krieg
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Latest work from @benedictgarman @emmapenggelly Israeli troops have been marking the "yellow line" with physical blocks. But we found in some parts they’re hundreds of metres deeper inside the strip than Israel's own map released after the ceasefire deal.
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For Palestinians, a line on a map can be the difference between life and death. BBC Verify found Israel is controlling more of Gaza than agreed in the ceasefire deal. Israel said anyone who crossed its "yellow line" would be “met with fire”. https://t.co/eYIVqyG7QL
bbc.co.uk
Israel has placed boundary markers up to 520m deeper inside Gaza than expected under the ceasefire deal with Hamas.
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@cog_ink @philleake91 A spokesperson said, SDS4, was shut down because it was no longer in IDF-controlled territory. Satellite imagery shows it was dismantled shortly after the ceasefire came into effect. Images show tyre tracks, disturbed earth and detritus strewn across the former compound.
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The GHF has told BBC Verify it has suspended operations since the ceasefire deal came into effect. Despite being funded until the end of November. Reporting with @cog_ink @philleake91
https://t.co/uBGcsYBost
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The US and Israeli-backed GHF group was heavily criticised before it announced a “pause” on its operations.
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Verified videos from Gaza show a public execution of eight men, armed members of Hamas's internal security force on patrol and masked fighters firing on unarmed men in displays of force by Hamas in Gaza since the US-brokered ceasefire began last week. https://t.co/kOWBdhaQag
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BBC Verify analyses footage of Hamas fighters in Gaza, including one of an execution in the centre of Gaza City.
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The White published a map of what a future Gaza would look like as part of a 20-point peace plan. BBC Verify analysis shows that the proposed 'final withdrawal' would still leave Gaza 15% occupied. With @benedictgarman @katerinakarelli @mesutersoz
https://t.co/VkTNRqR86q
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BBC Verify analyses President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza and what it means on the ground.
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