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Jake Godin

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Senior Researcher, Bellingcat. Previously at Scripps News.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · Dec 6

New SkySat imagery from Planet Labs over northern Gaza from Dec 5 shows extensive damage to the Beit Lahia Cemetery after the IDF cleared two paths through the middle of it.

🧵 I have a cemetery destruction thread on Twitter that I'll re-post to Bluesky for tracking purposes.

CC: @geoconfirmed.org

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 59m

With no reporters able to ask questions, it seems the Pentagon leadership will rely on slick social media posts, carefully orchestrated short videos and interviews with partisan commentators and podcasters.

No one should think that's good enough. “

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 20h

Looks like the berms are mostly intact but October 11 SkySat shows the now-empty Netzarim GHF site. The vehicles of folks who I'm guessing are returning north along Salah al-Deen Road are also visible.

A Planet Labs SkySat image from October 7 2025 showing the Salah al-Deen Road crossing of the Wadi Gaza in north-central Gaza Strip. The area is heavily destroyed from previous IDF activity.
The "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" aid distribution site is visible. It is a large square area built by the IDF. The white ground indicates its covered by gravel. The square is surrounded by dirt berms and inside the square are two sets up barriers at right angles.

A Planet Labs SkySat image from October 11 2025 showing the Salah al-Deen Road crossing of the Wadi Gaza in north-central Gaza Strip. The area is heavily destroyed from previous IDF activity.
The now abandoned "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" aid distribution site is visible. There appear to be tracks visible in the area and a large amount of civilian vehicles from Salah al-Deen Road are visible nearby.

Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 20h

Much of Gaza's WASH infrastructure has been either damaged or destroyed. Closer to the border, the Khan Yunis Waste Water Treatment Plant and nearby landfill were both damaged last year, as seen in 2024 @planet.com imagery: bsky.app/profile/godi...

Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · Oct 22

SkySat imagery from Planet Labs shows the current state of the Khan Yunis Waste Waterwater Treatment Plant and neighboring Al-Fukhari (Sofa) Landfill in southern Gaza.

The WWTP solar farm and the landfill's leachate ponds & admin building were both destroyed by the IDF in March.

satellite image of waste water treatment plant in november 2023

satellite image of waste water treatment plant in september 2024

Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 20h

Reporting from @dropsitenews.com's Younis Tirawi found photos of IDF soldiers celebrating in front of the Waste Water Treatment Plant fire before withdrawing: www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf...

The director of Gaza's water utility told Drop Site the fire could setback reconstruction by years.

Caption via Dropsite News: Soldiers in front of the burning biotowers inside the Sheikh Ajlin sewage plant. Source: social media.

Quote from Drop Site that reads:

Among the structures Drop Site discovered had been set on fire by the departing soldiers was the Sheikh Ajlin Sewage Treatment Station, a central component of Gaza City’s sanitation network. Monther Shoblaq, Director General of the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU) in Gaza, said the attack is a blow that could push Gaza City’s wastewater system “to point zero.” He added the plant is “one of Gaza’s oldest” and warned that its destruction will set back planned reconstruction efforts by years. “I mean, they signed a ceasefire,” Shoblaq said. “Why set it on fire?”

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 20h

October 11 SkySat imagery from @planet.com shows a column of smoke rising from the Sheikh Ejleen Waste Water Treatment Plant after the IDF withdrew from the base they established at the plant.

SkySat imagery from October 7 shows IDF vehicles and temporary structures set up inside the plant.

A SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing the Gaza Central Waste Water Treatment Plant Sheikh Ejleen south of Gaza City on October 7 2025. There is a large amount of destruction around the plant and near the plant grounds as well as in the plant itself there are IDF vehicles and temporary structures.

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Jennifer Smart ♠️ Commissions open! @jaesmart.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober day 12: shredded
Neb the Destroyer shreds a bramble swarm

#art #inktober2025 #fantasyart #ttrpg

An ink drawing of a burly humanoid cat wearing chainmail. He is slashing downwards with his sharp claws and slicing a mass of twigs and leaves into four pieces. Another mass of brambles attempts to entangle his foot in vines.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

#BREAKING Pakistan military says 23 of its troops, more than 200 on Afghan side killed in border clashes

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

The Taliban government in Afghanistan said on Sunday its forces killed "58 Pakistani troops" in border clashes that erupted between the neighbouring countries overnight, while nine Taliban troops were also killed ➡️ u.afp.com/Sma7

Taliban security personnel patrol in Humvees in the Mazal area of Shorabak district near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on October 12, 2025

Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a press conference in Kabul on October 12, 2025

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Bosphorus Observer @yoruk.bsky.social · 2d

Ship of Interest: US & EU sanctioned Russian flag bulker Enisey returns to the BlackSea after 530 days. Enisey was pierside at Puerto Cabello, then a shipyard in Alexandria but mostly aimlessly sailing Med & Marmara with no destination! Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 3d

Should note that some of the mound was already paved pre-war — though the area was mostly orchards. There was also a café on top that people frequented, as pointed out by @michaeldpress.bsky.social and SkyNews: bsky.app/profile/mich...

Two years later, there's been an immense amount of destruction.

An October 8 2023 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood where the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar is located. There are large orchards visible and a cafe and building with solar panels visible on part of the hill.

An October 7 2025 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood where the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar is located. All of the orchards and buildings have been destroyed except the solar panel building, which has been incorporated into a now-paved IDF outpost on top of the hill surrounded by extensive earthworks.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 3d

After conducting extensive earthworks on top of the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar, it appears in more recent @planet.com SkySat imagery from October 7 that the IDF has since paved the top of the mound.

The visible black area is similar to what we've seen when pavement has been used elsewhere.

A September 18 2025 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood where the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar is located. Most of the buildings surrounding the hill have been destroyed. There are IDF vehicles and gravel visible at an apparent IDF outpost on top of the hill.

A October 7 2025 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing part of Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood where the archeological mound Tell Ali Muntar is located. Most of the buildings surrounding the hill have been destroyed. There are IDF vehicles and other material visible at an apparent IDF outpost on top of the hill, which is now black indicating the previous gravel area has been paved over.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 3d

Latest PlanetScope capture over Netzarim was around noon, so not sure if it'd started getting dismantled by then. This is what it looks like compared with the October 4 PlanetScope.

Possible we'll see them destroy the berms around the site like the last time they withdrew from most of the corridor.

PlanetScope image taken by Planet Labs on October 4 2025 showing the "Netzarim Corridor" near Wadi Gaza where the IDF created one of the Gaza Humanitarian Fund sites. There is a large amount of destruction in the image with very few buildings still standing. The GHF site is a large square area surrounded by berms and with white gravel.

PlanetScope image taken by Planet Labs on October 10 2025 showing the "Netzarim Corridor" near Wadi Gaza where the IDF created one of the Gaza Humanitarian Fund sites. There is a large amount of destruction in the image with very few buildings still standing. The GHF site is a large square area surrounded by berms and with white gravel.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 3d

This will be visible in @planet.com imagery (PlanetScope or SkySat) once it starts happening. So far, no major changes at the southern sites when comparing October 4 and October 10 SkySat but will keep an eye on it.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Gaza Humanitarian Fund "distribution sites" (Israeli killing fields) are being dismantled as part of the ceasefire

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Gabòr Friesen @gaborfriesen.bsky.social · 4d

For my 2nd undergraduate thesis, I researched the feasibility of using Convolutional Neural Networks to automate the process of mapping military trenches. Thought this summary might interest some of you.
medium.com/@gaborfriese...

Using AI to Detect Military Trenches on Satellite Imagery

This article provides a simplified and summarised view of my second undergraduate thesis. For access to the full thesis on this topic (14 pages) or underlying datasets, please reach out to me …

medium.com

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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 14d

3/ for more on the long history of the oversight of firearms exports, see our resource page
www.forumarmstrade.org/catitoiii.html

Transfer of USML Cats I-III to Commerce

Possible transfer of USML categories I-III (guns and ammunition) to CCL

www.forumarmstrade.org

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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 14d

2/ despite how the Trump administration frames it, many in the Forum's shared community and others will see this as a very dangerous step that makes it easier to export assault weapons, undoes Congressional notification, and requirements that could provide much greater protections from misuse.

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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social · 14d

1/ Breaking- today, the Commerce Department announced the rescinding of a May 2024 Biden administration rule related to firearms exports, notably semi-automatic weapons (assault weapons). media.bis.gov/press-releas...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 4d

Clearly the founder of Antifa is a vampire.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 4d

Posobiec at Trump’s antifa propaganda event: “Antifa has been around going back to the Weimar Republic”

Noem at the same event: “We’ve arrested the girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

A lot going on here, but a religion note: DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin refers to Rev. Black as a "pastor" here — using quotation marks.

It's a notable slight against a faith leader's status, as Black is, in fact, an ordained minister of a church operating within the Presbytery of Chicago.

This footage is from almost a month ago. What this clipped video doesn’t show is that these agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility—impeding operations.

Over and over again, law enforcement ordered these agitators to move off of federal property so the vehicle could move. Law enforcement verbally warned these agitators that they would use force if they did not move and stop impeding operations. They did not comply.

Shortly after, rioters began throwing rocks, bottles and launching fireworks at the law enforcement officers on the roof.

At the time of this incident, this facility held criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals. Obstructing law enforcement puts officers, detainees and the public at risk. If you are obstructing law enforcement you can expect to be met with force.

And, as an aside, this is the same “pastor” who flipped
@Sec_Noem
and our team the bird when we were there last week.

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