https://gaza.forensic-architecture.org/database

The Cartography of Genocide platform documents in unprecedented detail the extent and character of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023.

The platform compiles evidence of thousands of acts of violence, destruction, or obstruction committed by the Israeli military against all aspects of civilian life in Gaza, including attacks on shelters, hospitals, universities, schools, cemeteries, archaeological sites, mosques and churches, fields and orchards, greenhouses, water wells, bakeries, and aid distribution. It also records Israel’s abuse of humanitarian measures such as evacuation orders and ‘safe zones’ as tools of population displacement.

But individual military actions must be understood as interrelated; sequential or concurrent acts of destruction or displacement may generate an accumulating effect, with every action aggravating the impact of another. Uniquely, this platform invites you to explore those compound impacts by combining and overlaying multiple datasets, including the cumulative destruction of Gaza’s agricultural land, to the day-by-day progress of Israel’s ground invasion, to attacks on aid distribution and a new system of ‘spatial control’ across the region.

Together, these datasets paint a comprehensive picture of more than a year of military assault on the fabric of civilian life in the Gaza Strip.