Digital investigations journalist @SkyNews Signal: bvdm.22
London, England
Joined August 2016
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In May 2024, @IDF Sgt. Dolev Mor Yossef posted this photo on his Instagram - posing with two blindfolded Palestinian women.
The two women have not been seen since.
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Strava users have been sharing sensitive data from US bases targeted by Iran, the Sky News data and forensics team has found.
The team found thousands of Strava data-sharing activities from inside US military bases on the frontline of the war with Iran.
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1,300+ Strava users shared workouts from US military bases in the Middle East, information that security experts say could have been used by Iran to target American forces.
An incredible investigation from my @SkyNews Data x Forensics colleague @_BvdM:
news.sky.com/story/strava-us…
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Rigorous and important Sky News documentary on Minab, where the U.S. bombed a school and killed 120 children. It combines on-the-ground reporting with 3D reconstruction, eyewitness accounts, archival footage, expert analysis and a Pentagon whistleblower.
youtube.com/watch?app=deskto…
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On the first day of the Iran war, a primary school in Minab was bombed.
156 people were killed - 120 of them children, plus an unborn child.
For months, myself and colleagues at Sky News have investigated what happened.
🧵Here's what we found:
It's four and a half months since the Minab school bombing.
We've been investigating.
Experts told us all the evidence points to US responsibility, and a Pentagon source told us their investigation blames "human error".
Our findings show the scale of the intelligence failure.
Watch the full documentary on YouTube, or on Sky News at 9pm
With @_annoaam @DominicWaghorn @Stone_SkyNews @Egab_co @ForensicArchi, Flora Bagenal and Full Story Films
youtube.com/watch?v=siRuobaj…
You can now also read about our findings here.
news.sky.com/story/revealed-…
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As our Minab film shows, there seem to be profound problems with the Pentagon's targeting database. The investigation is clearly being stifled, lessons not learned, just as US returns to bombing Iran at full tilt, civilian locations including rail stations again assaulted. 1/
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In a powerful new documentary, I speak to the truth behind the Minab school bombing.
I assisted @SkyNews in their months long on-the-ground investigation into the U.S. bombing of a primary school on the first day of the Iran War — in which 156 people were killed, including 120 children and 26 of their teachers.
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With the first journalist from a major western news organization on the ground in Minab, the Sky News team speaks to survivors, bereaved parents, and emergency workers while painstakingly reconstructing the attack and interviewing US military whistleblowers who make startling claims about what was behind the tragedy.
Watch the full documentary on YouTube:
youtu.be/siRuobaj7IE
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Tonight the culmination of months of work by a huge number of people at Sky a documentary with one mission, to find out what happened at Minab, the school bombed on day one of the war and why? We let you decide, in the absence of any official explanation
news.sky.com/share/13563603
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121 children killed at school in Minab on the first day of the 2026 US-Israeli war against Iran. Following calls from bereaved families and working with Sky News, we reconstructed the circumstances surrounding the airstrikes that claimed their lives. vimeo.com/1205461533/a6db7d6…
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.＠_annoaam explains how Sky News verified the identities of the 152 killed - including 120 students and 26 teachers - when a US missile struck an Iranian school on the first day of the war.
Scroll for full investigation 🔽
＠BarbaraGSerra | trib.al/VJCrUkZ
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152. Among them, 120 students and 26 teachers.
That's the number of people myself and @_BvdM have confirmed were killed when a US missile struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab on February 28.
