TechForPalestine / palestine-datasets

The human toll of Israel's ongoing genocide in names & numbers. Use the data from our APIs to tell their story.
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Ceasefire Now

Palestine Datasets

data.techforpalestine.org

This repo provides an open source dataset intended to show the human toll of Israel's hostilities across Palestine since Oct 7, 2023. There are five datasets:

Note that the JSON files in this repo are intended for tracking historical changes and manual access/download. If you're building a system that relies on pulling in regular updates please see our API docs for versioned endpoints instead.

There's also the source for the static documentation website under site/.

See sub readmes for more info on data sources in site/docs.

Contributing

Reading:

Development Environment

Prerequisites:

Documentation Site

To run the site locally use bun docs-start

Discussion / Planning

The team uses Discord to discuss this project. View the channel description & pinned messages to get started.

Note: You may want to use a separate / anonymous Github account for your safety. Assess your personal/work situation accordingly.

Roadmap

We commit to maintaining this dataset for the duration of Israel's attack on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and for so long as our sources are reporting those figures / lists. See github issues and our project board for in-process work or ideas for how you can contribute.