Illustration showing satellite imagery marking sites targeted by Israeli strikes following evacuation orders (left) and woman walking through the rubble in Beirut's southern suburbs (right). (Credit: Illustration by Jaimee Lee Haddad/L'Orient Today, Photo by Moe Yassin/L'Orient Today)
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 residents and neighbors of targeted buildings, typically at the last minute and via social media. Our analysis of satellite data, and the timing and destruction of the strikes that followed, found these warnings may have violated international law, despite their centrality to Israel’s claims of having “the most moral army in the world.”High-definition satellite imagery analyzed by Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) researcher Ahmad Baydoun and L'Orient Today, revealed that Israeli jets leveled at least 62 buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs in the two weeks after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination, following the issuance of 46 evacuation...
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 residents and neighbors of targeted buildings, typically at the last minute and via social media. Our analysis of satellite data, and the timing and destruction of the strikes that followed, found these warnings may have violated international law, despite their centrality to Israel’s claims of having “the most moral army in the world.”High-definition satellite imagery analyzed by Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) researcher Ahmad Baydoun and L'Orient Today, revealed that Israeli jets leveled at least 62 buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs in the two weeks after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination, following the issuance of 46...