Amnesty International introduces new digital tool to expose Israeli violations in Gaza

Amnesty International has launched a new online platform, mapping Israeli attacks in Gaza during the conflict of July and August 2014.

The map, which was unveiled on Wednesday, was created by Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture and aims to push for accountability for war crimes and breaches of international humanitarian law that may have occurred during the conflict.

The resource records the time and location of each attack on an interactive map, classifies the type of attack, site struck and number of casualties.

Photos, videos, eyewitness testimony and satellite imagery for attacks are also included and through new data visualization technology, users can investigate patterns in the Israeli military’s attacks themselves.

“The Gaza Platform is the most comprehensive record of attacks during the 2014 conflict to date,” said Philip Luther, Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.

“It allows us to piece together more than 2,500 individual attacks, illustrating the vast scale of destruction caused by Israel’s military operations in Gaza during the 50-day war last summer,” he added.

“The launch of the Gaza Platform today, a year after the start of the conflict, is a significant step in the process of documenting the full scale of violations that took place in Gaza last year,” said Eyal Weizman, Director of Forensic Architecture.