GazaIndex: Tracking Gaza

Here’s a description of this project:

If you need a number on Gaza that you can defend, it should be here. That is the whole purpose of GazaIndex: a sourced, continuous record of the genocide, the killed, the destroyed, the displaced, the price of bread, the trucks that made it through.

The numbers have always existed. UN agencies count trucks. Satellites photograph rubble. Health workers register the dead under conditions that would stop most systems from functioning at all. But the figures live scattered across situation reports, spreadsheets, and dashboards that expire, in formats that change, behind links that rot. Scattered records are easier to dispute and easier to erase. A number that cannot be traced is a number that can be denied.

GazaIndex gathers these figures from their primary sources, structures them into one consistent format, and keeps them in one place. Every indicator carries the source it came from, the date it was recorded, and the cadence at which it updates. Where sources are constrained, and in Gaza they are severely constrained, by restricted access, cut communications, and areas unreached for months, the limits are stated on the figure itself. Death counts are floors, not totals. Damage assessments wait on satellite passes. What the record cannot yet confirm, it does not claim.

GazaIndex does not author a narrative. It makes the data show it.

Follow this link to access GazaIndex.

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