Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Together with our publishing partners, Bellingcat continues the work of drone journalists who had been killed while documenting the war in Gaza, visualising the unprecedented scale of destruction through detailed 3D aerial maps.
Gathering aerial footage of Gaza is a dangerous task, and Bellingcat and our partners at Forbidden Stories/ARIJ/Paper Trail Media/Die Zeit/Der Standard/ Le Monde/RFI identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images.
00:00- 01:09 Shot From Above
01:09- 03:11 Context to why drone filming is so dangerous
03:12- 05:40 Hear Abdallah's story
05:40 - 06:22 Possibly the world's first photogrammatery model of Gaza
06:22 - 08:23 Abdallah's story continues
08:24 - 11:20 Hear from those who were part of the IDF
11:21 -15:35 Bellingcat and others look into Mustafa Thuraya's case
15:36 - 18:11 Making our 3D model and the death of another drone journalist
18:12 - 20:17 Satellite Imagery allows us some oversight
20:18 - 23:36 What obligations do combatants have to protect journalists?
This output was a whole consortium effort and we'd like to thank all of our partners and all of those featured within this piece for speaking with our and our partners teams.
Find our investigation on this topic here: bellingcat.com/news/2025/03/27/gaza-israel-palestine-shot-killed-injured-destroyed-dangerous-drone-journalists-in-gaza/?utm_source=YouTube
#gaza #investigativejournalism #bellingcat #conflictmonitoring #drone #news
Together with our publishing partners, Bellingcat continues the work of drone journalists who had been killed while documenting the war in Gaza, visualising the unprecedented scale of destruction through detailed 3D aerial maps.
Gathering aerial footage of Gaza is a dangerous task, and Bellingcat and our partners at Forbidden Stories/ARIJ/Paper Trail Media/Die Zeit/Der Standard/ Le Monde/RFI identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images.
00:00- 01:09 Shot From Above
01:09- 03:11 Context to why drone filming is so dangerous
03:12- 05:40 Hear Abdallah's story
05:40 - 06:22 Possibly the world's first photogrammatery model of Gaza
06:22 - 08:23 Abdallah's story continues
08:24 - 11:20 Hear from those who were part of the IDF
11:21 -15:35 Bellingcat and others look into Mustafa Thuraya's case
15:36 - 18:11 Making our 3D model and the death of another drone journalist
18:12 - 20:17 Satellite Imagery allows us some oversight
20:18 - 23:36 What obligations do combatants have to protect journalists?
This output was a whole consortium effort and we'd like to thank all of our partners and all of those featured within this piece for speaking with our and our partners teams.
Find our investigation on this topic here: bellingcat.com/news/2025/03/27/gaza-israel-palestine-shot-killed-injured-destroyed-dangerous-drone-journalists-in-gaza/?utm_source=YouTube
#gaza #investigativejournalism #bellingcat #conflictmonitoring #drone #news
