Project ยท 2025 onward
GazaIndex
A living record of the genocide in Gaza, kept in numbers. Casualties, destruction, displacement, prices, and aid, each figure tied to its original source so it can be cited and defended.
Founded by me, and now the analytical platform of the Gaza Genocide Center, a documentation institution preserving the historical record of the genocide in Gaza.
gazaindex.org, desktop
Live snapshot, mobile
Why it exists
While writing my dissertation I kept running into the same obstacle. The data I needed existed: reconstruction, destruction, health, the economy. But it was scattered across dozens of agencies, reports, and trackers. There was no single place a researcher, a journalist, a student, or anyone simply trying to understand could turn to and find it, sourced and in one view.
That friction is not neutral. It advantages whoever already has an institutional data team, and it disadvantages Palestinians documenting their own conditions. So I started building one.
What it holds
- A live snapshot of the past seven days: lives lost and wounded, derived from the running totals reported since October 2023
- Commodity prices, tracking what a staple such as wheat flour actually costs inside Gaza against pre-October 2023 levels
- Aid trucks entering, or not entering, and the status of each crossing
- Destruction, displacement, economy, and society indicators drawn from agency reporting
- Provenance for every figure, so any number can be traced to the body that published it and the date it changed
Why numbers
A record that means nothing is a record that can be denied later.
Figures move too fast
We are living through a moment where numbers are thrown at us constantly. When figures move that fast, they stop meaning anything.
Documented, not headline
Not a headline number, but one where we know where it came from, when it changed, and what it stood next to.
Something rigorous waiting
So that when people come to ask what happened in Gaza, there is a record waiting for them. Building something alone is one thing. Building it somewhere it will outlive you is another.