Misinformation and disinformation are part of the landscape of modern warfare. Here, a standard smoke munition was misidentified or misrepresented as a chemical weapon. Entries in the Open Source Munitions Portal present verified images, whilst the ARES post provides analysis.

On today's Lawfare Daily, Tyler McBrien talked to Kavitha Chekuru, Emily Tripp, Samaneh Moafi, and Private Ear about the Fault Lines documentary, “The Night Won’t End” which profiles three Palestinian families as they try to survive the war in Gaza. lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfar…

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The Pentagon has long denied civilian casualties in the 2019 al-Baghdadi raid, despite reports from NPR and others. Zomia Center & CIVIC asked DoD to reopen the case. Today, NPR reports that the case is being re-investigated ⬇️🧵

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Huge result - the Pentagon is reinvestigating one of the highest profile strikes under the Trump administration. This comes after sustained reporting from NPR + pressure from CIVIC and Zomia Center npr.org/2024/08/07/nx-…

Reuters LincolnFeast Reuters Pew Research Center Carroll Doherty Financial Times The Wall Street Journal James Hookway Kara Dapena Joe Parkinson drew hinshaw Bojan Pancevski Aruna Viswanatha In a months-long investigation, Airwars used open source monitoring to independently identify where and how nearly 3,000 civilians were killed in the first 17 days of the Israel-Hamas conflict. gijn.org/stories/illust…

For more details on the GBU-39, and 9 previous verified images of GBU-39 munitions in Gaza, see our page osmp.ngo/model/gbu-39-s…

More than 40,000 people have now died in Gaza. But those numbers are still disputed by Israel. Where have they come from, and are they trustworthy? New information on how deaths are being counted in Gaza 🧵

In recent months, the HIC has rebuilt the entire system from scratch. All of Gaza’s major hospitals are now reconnected, aside from those in the south which have been rendered inoperable.

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More than 40,000 killed in Israel’s war in Gaza, Health Ministry says via Miriam Berger and The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/…

This thread, and the underlying article by Ben van der Merwe , are an absolute must-read for anyone interested in the death toll in Gaza.

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The Standards for Casualty Recording were published in 2016 to establish a baseline for the practice of casualty recording. They aim to encourage casualty recorders to consider key aspects of good practice & how these can be applied to their projects. buff.ly/4fUfQaw

Explosive ordnance can cause hazards for decades. The The HALO Trust recently removed the remnants of a 1,000 pound MK83 series US manufactured air-delivered bomb, potentially dropped more than 50 years ago. osmp.ngo/osmp680/

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20 new munition images were added to the OSMP in the last week, including: - GBU-39 air-delivered bombs from Gaza and Ukraine - Paveh/Quds cruise missiles from Iran and Sudan - Israeli MK-83 Spice-1000 air-delivered bombs from Lebanon View them all here: osmp.ngo/?ids=726,712,7…

In this article, Michael Spagat, Chair of ECC, presents an overview of the key points generated by new information received from the Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) regarding casualty recording in the Gaza war since October 7th. buff.ly/4cQD66C