The documentation desk
مكتبة الأبحاث
Human rights organizations, UN agencies, legal monitors, and trusted journalism. Every summary here is original; every source links back to the publisher that issued it.
FALASTEEN.AI documentation desk
2026
History
Key document
A sourced record of what Israeli and international outlets have verifiably reported about Israeli forces' use of the Hannibal Directive and friendly fire on October 7, 2023 — alongside the established record of the Hamas-led massacre that day.
FALASTEEN.AI documentation desk
2026
History
Key document
The Gaza Ministry of Health's documented count — more than 72,500 reported killed by late April 2026 — is the floor, not the ceiling: peer-reviewed analyses using independent methods converge on substantial undercounting, while excess-mortality projections run far higher. This entry records what is documented, what is estimated, and by whom.
Israa Baker, Azzam Zrineh, Mohammad AL Qadire, Mayyasah Ramadan, Hameeda Abu Sneineh, Elham Kateeb and Salam Khatib, Scientific Reports
27 March 2026
Health
A cross-sectional study of 819 undergraduates recruited primarily at seven West Bank universities, conducted February to April 2024. 87.2% reported psychological distress and 51.9% met criteria for PTSD or complex PTSD — and 97.4% had not received specialist mental health support during the conflict period.
World Health Organization, occupied Palestinian territory
3 February 2026
United Nations
WHO's 2026 emergency appeal for the occupied Palestinian territory, which puts the mental health need in the Gaza Strip at an estimated one million people, and records that West Bank mental health needs are acute — set against a health system in which only half of Gaza's hospitals are partially functional and 48% of primary care centres are operating.
Federica Cavazzoni, Ala' Mustafa, Cindy Sousa, Ola H Abuward, Mona Ameen Nofal and Guido Veronese, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
22 October 2025
Health
Thirty testimonies collected between November 2023 and June 2024 — fifteen from people in the Gaza Strip and fifteen from mental health professionals in Europe — in the only peer-reviewed study this archive has found that puts the experience of living the catastrophe and the experience of watching it in the same frame, in that order.
Susan J Rees, Tyson Whitten, Alvin Kuowei Tay, Aino Suomi, Batool Moussa, Fatima Hassoun, Nawal Nadar and Derrick Silove, The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific
22 July 2025
Health
A prospective cohort of 410 women in Australia, assessed before and during the war, finding significantly greater increases in panic-disorder symptoms, and poorer quality of life, among those connected to Lebanon, Gaza and the Palestinian territories. It is the only prospective before-and-after design this archive could locate — and the near-absence of anything measuring Palestinians specifically is itself the finding.
UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
2025-09-16
United Nations
The Commission of Inquiry's report of 16 September 2025 concluding on reasonable grounds that Israeli authorities and security forces have committed four of the five genocidal acts under the Genocide Convention against Palestinians in Gaza, and that President Herzog, Prime Minister Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Gallant incited genocide.
Democracy Now!
2025-07-17
History
Omer Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, explaining when and why he revised his initial assessment of the Gaza campaign and concluded that Israel's conduct constitutes genocide.
B'Tselem (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories)
2025-07-28
Human rights
The July 2025 report in which B'Tselem — an Israeli human rights organisation founded in 1989 — concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, published the same day as a parallel report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel.
Samah Jabr, Wakefield Press
2025
Health
The 2025 essay collection by the Palestinian psychiatrist Samah Jabr, with a foreword by Gabor Maté — and a short list of recorded talks by her, each one opened and checked so the speaker, title and host are exactly as stated here.
Curdin Brugger, Bassam Abu Hamad, Jan Hattendorf, Mirko S Winkler and Nicole Probst-Hensch, eClinicalMedicine
24 November 2025
Health
A longitudinal population-based cohort in the Gaza Strip that surveyed the same 677 adults in 2020, 2023 and 2025. High psychological distress went from 19.5% before the war to 67.2% in January 2025 — a rise measured within the same people, not across different samples.
Amnesty International
2024-12-05
Human rights
Amnesty International's report of 5 December 2024, the first in which the organisation concluded that a state it investigates is committing genocide — finding sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
2024
United Nations
The Special Rapporteur's report to the Human Rights Council's 55th session concluding that there are reasonable grounds to believe the threshold indicating the commission of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has been met.
Lee Mordechai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2024
History
The continuously updated documentary record compiled by Israeli historian Lee Mordechai, running to over a thousand footnoted references to testimonies, video, investigations and reporting, with chapters including one on dehumanisation — now the founding document of a wider multi-contributor project, Witnessing the Gaza War.
Just Security
2024-12-16
Legal
The December 2024 analysis by two Israeli international lawyers disputing Amnesty International's genocide determination on evidentiary grounds — the principal scholarly counter-argument, recorded here so the disagreement can be read in its own words.
Human Rights Watch
2024-12-19
Human rights
Human Rights Watch's 179-page report of 19 December 2024 finding that Israeli authorities intentionally deprived Palestinians in Gaza of water, committing the crime against humanity of extermination and acts of genocide.
ICC
2024
Legal
ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I's decisions of 21 November 2024 rejecting Israel's jurisdictional challenges and issuing arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
ICJ
2024
Legal
The International Court of Justice's advisory opinion holding Israel's continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory unlawful, and obliging it to end that presence as rapidly as possible, evacuate all settlers, and make reparation.
ICJ
2024
Legal
The International Court of Justice's first provisional measures order in the Genocide Convention case, finding South Africa's rights under the Convention plausible and ordering six measures, including the prevention of genocidal acts and the punishment of incitement.
ICJ
2024
Legal
The International Court of Justice's second and third provisional measures orders in South Africa v. Israel: the 28 March 2024 order on famine and humanitarian access, and the 24 May 2024 order directing Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah.
Al Jazeera Interactive
2024
Journalism
Al Jazeera's interactive memorial to the more than ten thousand children killed in Gaza — built from the Ministry of Health's named lists, presented child by child with names and ages, so that a statistic that defeats comprehension becomes a register of individual lives. One of the essential companion records to this archive's own Registry.
UN Commission of Inquiry
2024
Legal
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry's 2024 reports: the June 2024 report (A/HRC/56/26) on the 7 October 2023 attacks and Israel's military operations in Gaza, and the September 2024 report (A/79/232) on attacks on Gaza's healthcare system, Palestinian detainees, and hostages.
Hanna Kienzler, Gwyn Daniel, Weeam Hammoudeh, Rana Nashashibi, Yasser Abu-Jamei and Rita Giacaman, BMJ Global Health
30 September 2024
Health
A commentary in BMJ Global Health written by clinicians and researchers at Birzeit University's Institute of Community and Public Health, the Palestinian Counseling Centre and the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, arguing that the psychological consequences of the assault on Gaza cannot be held inside individual diagnosis, and that justice is a precondition of healing.
Local Call / Mekomit, translated by Sol Salbe
2024-04-18
History
The essay of April 2024 in which Amos Goldberg, a Holocaust and genocide researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wrote in Hebrew for an Israeli readership that what Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide.
Jewish Currents
2023-10-13
History
The essay of 13 October 2023 in which Raz Segal, a scholar of Holocaust and genocide studies, argued that Israel's assault on Gaza should be understood as a textbook case of genocide — one of the earliest such assessments by a scholar in the field.
ICJ
2023
Legal
South Africa's 84-page application of 29 December 2023 instituting proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention, together with a request for provisional measures.
Save the Children International
15 June 2022
Health
Save the Children's 2022 report, a repeat of its own 2018 research, consulting 488 children and 168 caregivers in the Gaza Strip. Four in five children reported living with depression, grief and fear — sixteen months before October 2023. It is the baseline the current figures should be read against.
Genocide Watch
1996
History
Gregory Stanton's model of the processes by which genocides develop, in which dehumanisation is identified as the fourth stage — the point at which a group is denied membership of humanity and killing ceases to be experienced as murder.
Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), Gaza City, Deir El-Balah and Khan Younis
founded 1990
Health
The independent Palestinian mental health organisation founded in Gaza in 1990 by the psychiatrist Dr Eyad El-Sarraj. It is the longest-running clinical record of what the blockade and the successive assaults have done to people in the Strip, kept by Palestinians treating Palestinians.
+972 Magazine
ongoing
Journalism
An independent, nonprofit online magazine founded in 2010 and run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists, named after the telephone country code shared by Israelis and Palestinians.
Adalah
ongoing
Legal
Founded in 1996 and based in Haifa, Adalah litigates and advocates for the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, and for Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, before Israeli courts and international bodies.
Addameer
ongoing
Legal
Addameer supports Palestinian political prisoners held by Israeli authorities and campaigns against administrative detention and torture.
Al Mezan
ongoing
Human rights
Founded in 1999 and based in Gaza, Al Mezan documents human rights violations in the Gaza Strip, provides legal aid to victims, and advocates for accountability and the rule of law under occupation and blockade.
Al-Haq
ongoing
Legal
Key document
Al-Haq is a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization based in Ramallah, specializing in legal research, advocacy, and international accountability.
Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
ongoing
Journalism
A transnational think tank and global network of Palestinian analysts, Al-Shabaka produces peer-reviewed policy briefs, commentary, and the Rethinking Palestine podcast, grounded in a vision of a liberated, self-determined Palestinian future.
Amnesty International
ongoing
Human rights
Amnesty documents human rights violations by Israeli authorities and Palestinian armed groups and campaigns for justice, accountability, and an end to apartheid.
B'Tselem
ongoing
Human rights
Key document
B'Tselem documents human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied territories through field research, video testimony, and policy analysis. Founded in 1989 by Israeli academics, attorneys, and journalists, it publishes reports in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
BADIL
ongoing
Legal
Founded in 1998 in Bethlehem, BADIL defends the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons, with a legal focus on residency, return, property restitution, and the right of return under international law.
Community Action Center (CAC), Al-Quds University
ongoing
Legal
A Palestinian rights centre in the Old City of Jerusalem, created by Al-Quds University in 1999, with a legal services unit and open advice hours on residency, national insurance, and building and demolition files.
DCIP
ongoing
Human rights
DCIP documents the detention, killing, and maiming of Palestinian children by Israeli forces and advocates for their rights under international law.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
ongoing
Human rights
A youth-led nonprofit founded in 2011 and registered in Switzerland, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documents human rights violations across Europe and the MENA region, with extensive field reporting from the Gaza Strip.
Forensic Architecture
ongoing
Journalism
A research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, founded in 2010 by architect Eyal Weizman, producing spatial and media investigations of state violence and human rights violations, including a long-running body of work on Palestine.
HaMoked
ongoing
Legal
A Jerusalem legal-aid organisation that takes individual Palestinian cases against the Israeli authorities — residency revocation, family unification, tracing detainees, house demolition, freedom of movement — and publishes the ministry data it extracts along the way.
Human Rights Watch
ongoing
Human rights
HRW investigates and reports on human rights conditions in Israel and Palestine, including laws and policies affecting Palestinians under occupation and in Israel.
International Criminal Court
ongoing
Legal
The International Criminal Court has been investigating alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Situation in the State of Palestine since 2021; in November 2024 its Pre-Trial Chamber issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
Institute for Middle East Understanding
ongoing
Journalism
A U.S. nonprofit founded in 2005, the IMEU provides journalists and media outlets with facts, analysis, and access to Palestinian experts and voices, and publishes fact sheets, explainers, and the This Is Palestine podcast.
Institute for Palestine Studies
ongoing
History
A free, bilingual interactive encyclopedia from the Institute for Palestine Studies and the Palestinian Museum, tracing modern Palestinian history through thousands of chronology entries, biographies, documents, and village profiles rooted in refugee and Nakba memory.
Jewish Voice for Peace
ongoing
Solidarity
Founded in 1996, Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the United States, organizing a grassroots movement of American Jews in support of Palestinian freedom.
Mondoweiss
ongoing
Journalism
An independent news organization founded in 2006 by journalist Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss covers developments in Israel/Palestine and related U.S. foreign policy through original on-the-ground reporting, scholarly analysis, and personal stories.
Norwegian Refugee Council
ongoing
Legal
NRC's legal-aid programme in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza: free information, counselling and representation on housing, land and property — demolition, eviction and confiscation orders, access restrictions, and documentation.
Palestine Open Maps
ongoing
History
An open platform layering historical maps of Palestine — including detailed 1940s British Mandate survey sheets — with present-day maps, documenting hundreds of villages depopulated in 1948.
Palestine Remembered
ongoing
History
A long-running, non-commercial website documenting Palestine's depopulated villages, whose Nakba Oral History Project publishes hundreds of recorded interviews with refugees who witnessed the events of 1948 firsthand.
PCHR
ongoing
Human rights
Key document
Based in Gaza, PCHR monitors and documents violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, provides legal aid, and advocates before international bodies.
Palestinian Oral History Archive, American University of Beirut
ongoing
History
A searchable digital archive at the American University of Beirut holding more than 1,000 hours of audio and video testimony recorded with first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, drawn from over 150 uprooted villages and communities.
The Electronic Intifada
ongoing
Journalism
An independent online publication founded in 2001 by Ali Abunimah and fellow activists, The Electronic Intifada publishes news, analysis, and first-person reporting on Palestine, its people, politics, culture, and place in the world.
The Nakba Archive
ongoing
History
A grassroots oral history collective founded in Lebanon in 2002 that has filmed more than 650 video interviews with first-generation Palestinian refugees about life before 1948 and the expulsions that made them refugees.
The Palestinian Museum
ongoing
History
The open digital archive of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, preserving photographs, documents, film, and audio contributed by Palestinian families and institutions in Palestine and the diaspora — a bottom-up record spanning more than two centuries.
UN OCHA
ongoing
United Nations
Key document
OCHA coordinates humanitarian response in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and publishes data dashboards, situation reports, and access maps used by aid agencies and journalists.
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
ongoing
United Nations
An independent expert appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur investigates and reports publicly on Israel's violations of international law in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, reporting annually to the Human Rights Council.
UNRWA
ongoing
United Nations
Established by UN General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) in December 1949, UNRWA provides education, health care, and relief to millions of registered Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and Gaza.
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
ongoing
Solidarity
Founded in 2001 as the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, USCPR is a national network providing resources and strategic support to the U.S.-based Palestine solidarity movement, with a focus on ending U.S. military funding to Israel.
Visualizing Palestine
ongoing
Journalism
Founded in 2012, Visualizing Palestine produces data-driven infographics and visual stories about Palestinian life, rights, and history, published under Creative Commons licenses for free reuse.
We Are Not Numbers
ongoing
Journalism
Founded in Gaza in 2015, We Are Not Numbers pairs young Palestinian writers with English-language mentors around the world, publishing first-person essays and poems that resist the reduction of Palestinians to casualty statistics.
World Health Organization — occupied Palestinian territory
ongoing
Health
The WHO office for the occupied Palestinian territory supports the Palestinian health system, coordinates the health response to emergencies in Gaza and the West Bank, and publishes situation reports and data on attacks on health care.
Zochrot
ongoing
History
An Israeli organization, founded in 2002, that documents the Nakba for a Hebrew-speaking audience through refugee testimony, tours of destroyed Palestinian villages, and filmed interviews with both displaced Palestinians and Israeli veterans of 1948.
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Photograph: Workers packing and crating oranges for export at Jaffa, between 1920 and 1933 · Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
