Gaza — since October 2023Relational archive · v0.1 · Fixture data · Not yet public

Gaza GenocideRelational ArchivePeople, places, incidents, evidence and law — held as one record

Live reconstruction46 strikes plotted0 lives entering the recorddrag to rotate
A tribute.A record.A call to action.

Every entity is a node; every relationship is an edge that can be walked in either direction. Medicide is the first of eight thematic layers built over this record.

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Source records
Victim documentation forms
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Entity types
Person to legal analysis
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Places implicated
Institutions & sites
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Systems of destruction
Genocide and its layers
Person/Family/Place/Institution/Incident/Weapon/Evidence/Theme/Legal Analysis/killed_in/lived_at/treated_at/documents/assesses/member_of/displaced_from/exemplifies/Person/Family/Place/Institution/Incident/Weapon/Evidence/Theme/Legal Analysis/killed_in/lived_at/treated_at/documents/assesses/member_of/displaced_from/exemplifies/
02 — The model

Eight entity types.
One continuous evidentiary chain.

All relationships
  • · member_of
  • · lived_at · worked_at · died_at
  • · killed_in · witnessed
  • · supported_by
  • · occurred_at
  • · used_weapon
  • · documented_by
  • · exemplifies
  • · classifies
  • · assesses
  • · based_on
  • · originates_from
hover an entity to trace its edges12 edges

One incident record per event. Five people killed in one airstrike are five killed_in edges to a single node — never five duplicated stories. Every automatic classification carries the rule that produced it, and the interface can always show why.

03 — Systems of destruction

Eight thematic layers.
Each one a query over the same graph.

A theme is not a folder. Nothing is filed under Medicide or Domicide by hand: a record enters a layer when the relationships in the graph satisfy the rule for that layer, and every membership carries the rule that produced it. Medicide is the archive's first deliverable — the layer built to prove the method — not the whole of what is being documented.

The category under which the other layers are read together: acts committed with intent to destroy a group, in whole or in part.

/themes/genocide

The deliberate destruction of the conditions of medical survival: staff, facilities, ambulances, supply, and the patients dependent on all of them.

Open the 313 loaded records

The dismantling of education as a system, not the loss of buildings alone.

/themes/scholasticide

The destruction of the home as the unit that makes a family locatable.

/themes/domicide

The erasure of the urban fabric that holds a population in place.

/themes/urbicide

Damage to the environment on which survival after the war depends.

/themes/ecocide

The removal of a people's capacity to organise and represent itself.

/themes/politicide

The destruction of the record a people keeps of itself.

/themes/culturicide
04 — Ways in

Every page is a view
of the same evidence.

01In build
Search & Explore

One field across every entity type. Arabic and English, name variants, place aliases, ID numbers.

/search
03In build
Places & Institutions

Hospitals, schools, shelters, homes and streets — each place recorded once and linked to everything that happened there.

/places
04In build
Incidents & Weapons

One record per event. Five people killed in one strike are five edges to one incident, never five stories.

/incidents
05Planned
Interactive Gaza Map

The whole graph on the ground: incidents, places and people, clustered, layered, and filterable by theme and date.

/map
06In build
Analysis — Themes & Law

Thematic dashboards and legal assessments, each one traceable to the documented facts and evidence beneath it.

/themes · /law
07In build
Evidence

Testimony, medical records, imagery, certificates and reports — including the ones that exist but cannot yet be shown.

/evidence/{id}
08Planned
About, Methodology & Corrections

How a record enters the archive, how it is verified, and how a mistake in it is corrected.

/about · /reports
05 — Route map

Twenty routes.
Five layouts. Fifteen components.

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Partial
/search
Yes
/people
Yes
build 1/people/{id}
Yes
/people/fate-of-the-body
Yes
/families/{id}
Yes
/places
Yes
/places/{id}
Yes
/incidents
Yes
/incidents/{id}
Yes
/weapons/{id}
Yes
/themes
Yes
build 2/themes/medicide
Yes
/themes/{other}
Deferred
/law
Yes
/law/{code}
Yes
/law/genocide
Deferred
/evidence/{id}
Partial
/reports
Partial
/about
Yes
Five states, on every page
Missing

Absent IDs, absent coordinates, blank occupation. An empty field must not read as an error.

Restricted

Reporters and eyewitnesses are never public. Something exists; it is not disclosed.

Unverified

Draft, review, verified, published. Confirmation status is visible on the record.

Estimated

Orphan counts are estimates. Estimates must never look like verified counts.

Empty

A person with no documented family. Common, and not an error.