What This Project Is
The Gaza Documentation Project is an evidence compilation and legal analysis resource. It aggregates verified reports, primary source documents, official institutional findings, and publicly recorded statements relevant to the question of whether Israel's actions in Gaza constitute genocide under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention.
- A compiled archive of publicly available evidence organized around a specific legal framework
- A reference resource for journalists, researchers, students, advocates, and general readers
- An advocacy-oriented site that presents one interpretation of the documented record
- A living document updated as new institutional findings and data become available
- A resource designed to make primary sources directly accessible and traceable
Transparency on stance: This site takes an explicit position — that the documented record meets the legal threshold for genocide under the 1948 Convention. That position is stated openly, not disguised as neutral aggregation. Readers should evaluate the evidence independently.
Israeli government responses and rebuttals are available at gov.il ↗ and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ↗.
What This Project Is Not
- Not a formal legal opinion or legal advice of any kind
- Not an official finding of any court, tribunal, or government body
- Not a final determination of genocide — only competent courts (ICJ, ICC) can make that determination
- Not affiliated with any government, political party, NGO, or advocacy organization
- Not a comprehensive account of all actors in the conflict — this site focuses specifically on Israeli state conduct
- Not a statement on the conduct of Hamas, whose actions are addressed separately in primary sources
Source Standards
All claims on this site are required to meet one of the following source tiers. Claims without a source link are not included.
| Tier | Type | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Official documents, court records, institutional reports published by the originating body | ICJ orders, ICC filings, UN Commission reports, OCHA situation reports, government statements |
| Peer-reviewed | Academic or medical research published in peer-reviewed journals | The Lancet, Lancet Global Health, eClinicalMedicine |
| Major institutional | Reports from established international human rights or humanitarian organizations | Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UNRWA, WHO, UNICEF, WFP |
| Verified journalism | Reporting from outlets with editorial standards and correction policies, where the specific claim is sourced within the article | Haaretz, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, AP, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Times of Israel |
Where a claim is attributed to a specific official statement or quote, the original source language (or a direct translation) is linked or reproduced. This site does not rely on secondary summaries of official statements where the primary record is accessible.
Claim Categories
Each factual claim on this site falls into one of four categories. These are not always displayed visually on every page but govern how content is presented:
Documented & sourced
Confirmed by primary sources, peer-reviewed research, or multiple independent institutional reports. Presented as established fact.
Disputed by parties
Reported or documented but disputed by Israeli authorities or other credible parties. Presented with the dispute noted.
Reported, not confirmed
Reported by credible sources but not yet independently verified or confirmed by institutional investigation. Presented as alleged.
Analytical conclusion
The application of legal frameworks to documented facts — including this site's own conclusion that the record constitutes genocide. These are interpretations, not findings of a court.
The Genocide Convention Standard Applied
This site applies Article II of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as its primary analytical framework. That text is reproduced in full on the Evidence page.
The legal standard applied is the "only reasonable inference" standard for genocidal intent, as established by the International Court of Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro (2007) and applied by the UN Commission of Inquiry in its September 2025 report on Gaza.
This site does not apply a higher or lower threshold than the one used by the ICJ and UN Commission. Claims about intent are grounded in: (a) direct statements by officials, (b) systematic patterns of conduct, and (c) institutional findings that have applied this standard to the same record.
On the distinction between "plausible," "reasonable grounds," and "confirmed": These are distinct legal thresholds used by different bodies. The ICJ's January 2024 provisional measures order found genocide plausible. The UN Special Rapporteur's March 2024 report found reasonable grounds. The UN Commission of Inquiry's September 2025 report confirmed four of five genocidal acts and found genocidal intent established. This site presents these as cumulative — not equivalent — findings.
What This Site Does Not Cover
In the interest of clarity about scope:
- Hamas's conduct on and after October 7, 2023 is not analyzed here; primary sources on that record are available via the Israeli government and international human rights organizations
- The broader Israel-Palestine conflict prior to 2007 (when the blockade began) is referenced for context but not comprehensively documented
- Individual criminal liability of specific persons — that is the domain of the ICC, whose proceedings are linked but not replicated here
- Casualty figures for Israeli military and civilian deaths are not tracked here; those are documented by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and OCHA
How to Verify Claims on This Site
Every factual claim on this site is accompanied by an inline source link. To verify any claim:
- Click the source link attached to the claim
- If the link goes to a summary or news article, follow to the primary document cited within it
- For UN documents, the official document symbol (e.g., A/HRC/60/CRP.3) can be searched directly at documents.un.org ↗
- For ICJ proceedings, the full record is at icj-cij.org/case/192 ↗
- For casualty data, cross-reference Gaza Ministry of Health figures against OCHA's independent tracking at ochaopt.org ↗
If a link is broken or a claim appears unsourced, that is an error. Use the feedback mechanism below to flag it.
Corrections & Updates
This site is maintained as a living document. When data changes — death tolls, legal rulings, institutional findings — pages are updated and the change is logged below. When a source link breaks, it is replaced with an archived version or an updated primary source.
To report a broken link, unsourced claim, or factual error, the project can be contacted via the feedback mechanisms on each page.
Contact & Attribution
This project is maintained anonymously. It is not affiliated with any government, political party, legal firm, or funded advocacy organization. All sources used are publicly available.
Content on this site may be freely reproduced with attribution to Gaza Documentation Project (israeliscommittinggenocide.com) and a link to the specific source documents cited.