About

A tool for picturing scale.

Gaza is small. It is difficult to imagine how anywhere inside it could be a "safe zone." This site lets you pick Gaza up and place it over a place you already know, so the geography can speak for itself.

It is not a campaign, a petition, or a news feed. It shows the area of Gaza, a few sourced figures, and where to give. Nothing more.

The project

An independent, non-commercial project. Not affiliated with any government, political party, or NGO. The Gaza boundary is rendered from public geographic data; the base map is OpenStreetMap.

Sources

365 km²Total area of GazaOpenStreetMap
~200,000 tExplosives dropped, est.Euro-Med MonitorUN OCHA
×13Hiroshima bombs, equivalentEuro-Med MonitorThe Canary
67,000+KilledGaza MoHUN OCHA
169,000+InjuredUN OCHA
123,464+DestroyedUNOSAT / UNITAR

Figures concern an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe and are updated as authorities revise them. Where estimates vary, the most conservative widely-cited figure is used.

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