Gaza: Cartography of Genocide
Forensic Architecture’s project, is an investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
It maps thousands of events to reveal how evacuation orders, displacement, and the systematic destruction of civilian, medical, agricultural, and aid infrastructure combined to devastate conditions for civilian life in Gaza.
This report draws on a research project independently undertaken following the start of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in October 2023. The project uses FA’s research methodologies to construct a comprehensive dataset and interactive interface, which we refer to as the ‘General Cartographic Database’ (‘GCD’; see more on the GCD in Methodology, below).
Data exported from the GCD has constituted the basis of several reports we have published since October 2023, including:
Inhumane Zones: An assessment of Israel’s actions with respect to the provision of aid, shelter, safe passage, and assistance to evacuees in Gaza; response to questions raised in the ICJ on 17 May 2024 (pub. 19 May 2024);
- Attacks on Aid in Gaza: Preliminary Findings (short study and interactive platform, pub. 26 Apr 2024);
- Mass Burials at al-Shifa Hospital (short study, pub. 10 Apr 2024);
- Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza (video investigation, pub. 29 Mar 2024);
- Humanitarian Violence: Israel’s Abuse of Preventative Measures in its 2023–2024 Genocidal Military Campaign in the Occupied Gaza Strip (pub. 7 Mar 2024);
- An Assessment of Visual Material: Presented by the Israeli Legal Team at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), 12 January 2024 (pub. 26 Feb 2024);
- Israeli Disinformation: Al-Ahli Hospital (short study, pub. 15 Feb 2024);
- Destruction of Medical Infrastructure in Gaza: (interactive platforms, pub. 20 Dec 2023).
Download A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023.
See interactive platform.
Photo: Satellite images from 18 May 2024 (above) and 10 June 2024 (below) show clearing and bulldozing of the land, set up of new encampment areas, and the extension of the buffer zone on both sides of the route. Source: Forensic Architecture.
