who are those experts that you are referring to? as much as i hate Israel, they are a civilised western country, who does not commit genocides for the sake of it. there are undeniably civilian casualties, but that is hard to avoid when hamas are known to station military in schools, hospitals etc. you could argue that Israel should not strike such targets, but i think that it is not strange to prioritise your own people.
If any of that were true why does Israel forbid foreign journalists from reporting facts on the ground? Why did they kill more journalists than all prior conflicts in human history?
The next step could be to attempt to link as many of these as possible to a news article describing the Israeli actions that led to their death, and/or stories about their lives. Obviously it will be hard to attribute most of them, but I think even hundreds of accounts would be powerful.
The higher on the scale the people, the younger they are. This is depressing and completely unnecessary, this is cruel and still ongoing with the recent incursion in Lebanon.
It's insane that so many innocent people continue to die and Tsahal continues to justify their invasion and the death of these people. Heartbreaking.
HN is not unbiased, and not above censorship. Political things make it to the front page all the time, but this is the wrong kind of political thing. We're not supposed to talk about ----cides, at least, this ongoing one.
Unsure why this comment merely copy pasting the summary of TFA is voted dead [0]. Perhaps this is how low the bar for "antisemitism" has fallen these days? Or is vote manipulation taking HN in the direction of /. and reddit?
austin-cheney 6 minutes ago [dead] [–]
This visual shows the names of 60,199 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces
in Gaza from 7 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025. This staggering figure includes
only those whose names and ages could be identified by the Ministry of
Health in Gaza up to that date.
but people copy and paste pertinent info from articles all the time and have done for many many years, so why would you think it's a hard and fast sign of bot activity
White text on a mostly white background is not really a good choice, especially if you want to communicate something important.
Kinda unrelated, but are any good sources for deaths in that whole conflict before the 7th October, including other areas? Throwing around that number does have some impact, but does not tell the whole picture and is often dismissed as being "just" a reaction to the attack on 7th October.
This might not be 100% technical content, but the work, visualizations are technical.
So many people upvoted because they have empathy to both types of content, and downvotes to this type of content comes most of the time from bots controlled by IDF
Which countries? Negative submissions about China and Russia get flagged near-instantly. Frequently also about the USA. People don't like a topic - they flag it.
I'll give it time, perhaps the post was auto flagged from bots and mods can correct for it. Because political content is often here, and this is also a tech project as well.
If it stays removed this is probably my last interaction on HN.
It's just blatant censorship. There's not even any real political message here. It's just a fucking memorial for the tens of thousands of children (and tens of thousands of adults) that were killed, that someone coded up.
> There's not even any real political message here.
Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website. Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.
This visual shows the names of 60,199 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza from 7 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025. This staggering figure includes only those whose names and ages could be identified by the Ministry of Health in Gaza up to that date.
That number is absolutely staggering, and the fact that at least 20,000 of these are children is literally making me sick every time I think about it.
To Israelis who think this is justified because your country was attacked - for every person killed in the initial attacks, your military has killed 20 children(and many more adults). And that's the ones that were outright killed, and not "just" had their limbs torn off and given lifelong disabilities. How is that proportionate, fair or in any way justifiable?
I'm not looking to defend Israel's actions or to take a political stance here, but just wanted to ask about the proportionality/fairness argument - to the best of my knowledge, a proportionality between casualties on the two sides is not an expectation of any rules of war, and I don't recall ever seeing it applied to other conflicts.
> to the best of my knowledge, a proportionality between casualties on the two sides is not an expectation of any rules of war
If you were talking about combatants, you'd be correct. The main point about Gaza is that the majority of those who are killed are civilians[1]. And most civilized countries recognize[2] that civilians should be spared during armed conflicts.
That is correct, but every war should have an end at some point. To maybe ask this in a different way - how many more palestinian children have to die for the Israeli government to say "ok yeah we're done now". What is that number going to be? 20k? 100k? Every single one of them? Their stated objective is to eliminate th Hamas militants, but on the path to that goal the truly astounding civilian cost cannot justify the end, can it? Or if someone thinks it can, I'd ask - really? Surely there is a number between 0 and "every single person in Gaza" that would cause even the most hardened supporter of Israel to stop for a second?
(although maybe not, given that there are Israeli politicians saying everyone above the age of 5 in gaza should be cut down, so maybe I'm too optimistic).
The presentation is powerfully well executed and by itself alone is a worthy submission.
That every mouse movement highlights lives lost is harrowing. Grains of sand on the beach, each with their own world and community.
Shame on the flaggers.
Experts agree that this number is a vast, vast undercount.
who are those experts that you are referring to? as much as i hate Israel, they are a civilised western country, who does not commit genocides for the sake of it. there are undeniably civilian casualties, but that is hard to avoid when hamas are known to station military in schools, hospitals etc. you could argue that Israel should not strike such targets, but i think that it is not strange to prioritise your own people.
If any of that were true why does Israel forbid foreign journalists from reporting facts on the ground? Why did they kill more journalists than all prior conflicts in human history?
The next step could be to attempt to link as many of these as possible to a news article describing the Israeli actions that led to their death, and/or stories about their lives. Obviously it will be hard to attribute most of them, but I think even hundreds of accounts would be powerful.
They’re in age order and age 15 starts at about a quarter of the way down.
Shame on the flaggers.
These are the ones that we know the names of, there is at least this much of more people that we are not even aware
The higher on the scale the people, the younger they are. This is depressing and completely unnecessary, this is cruel and still ongoing with the recent incursion in Lebanon.
It's insane that so many innocent people continue to die and Tsahal continues to justify their invasion and the death of these people. Heartbreaking.
Why did this get flagged?
Unsurprising, but we know why. :(
HN is not unbiased, and not above censorship. Political things make it to the front page all the time, but this is the wrong kind of political thing. We're not supposed to talk about ----cides, at least, this ongoing one.
There's a large amount of people flagging that specific topic and viewpoint, it's a regular thing on HN, I'm not surprised at all.
Literally anything related to this conflict gets flagged immediately.
Thanks for creating this, sad state of the world we live in.
I see babies there who have seen this world for less than a day!
I know they don't see things well at that stage, their eyes haven't evolved yet, BUT they weren't given an opportunity to see it!!!
Can't express myself anymore
Unsure why this comment merely copy pasting the summary of TFA is voted dead [0]. Perhaps this is how low the bar for "antisemitism" has fallen these days? Or is vote manipulation taking HN in the direction of /. and reddit?
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612082To me it just sounds like a bot comment which is against HN rules.
I assure you that is not a bot account.
but people copy and paste pertinent info from articles all the time and have done for many many years, so why would you think it's a hard and fast sign of bot activity
White text on a mostly white background is not really a good choice, especially if you want to communicate something important.
Kinda unrelated, but are any good sources for deaths in that whole conflict before the 7th October, including other areas? Throwing around that number does have some impact, but does not tell the whole picture and is often dismissed as being "just" a reaction to the attack on 7th October.
This got flagged because genocide is too lowly a concern for the high, pure souls of HN.
Look, look sideways... until you break your neck.
@dang, please make sure this wont get flagged.
This might not be 100% technical content, but the work, visualizations are technical.
So many people upvoted because they have empathy to both types of content, and downvotes to this type of content comes most of the time from bots controlled by IDF
Political content is acceptable as long it is negative about certain countries, this isn't about one of them.
Which countries? Negative submissions about China and Russia get flagged near-instantly. Frequently also about the USA. People don't like a topic - they flag it.
There’s nothing technically interesting here.
Nothing? At all? The visual is not technology and not interesting?
Too late, it's been flagged. HN is reddit-tier now in terms of community downvoting, flagging, and astroturfing. About to go the way of /.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577076
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571182
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571396
It really is an indictment of this site that any mention of the genocide in Gaza is flagged almost instantly.
I'll give it time, perhaps the post was auto flagged from bots and mods can correct for it. Because political content is often here, and this is also a tech project as well.
If it stays removed this is probably my last interaction on HN.
It's just blatant censorship. There's not even any real political message here. It's just a fucking memorial for the tens of thousands of children (and tens of thousands of adults) that were killed, that someone coded up.
> There's not even any real political message here.
Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website. Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.
This visual shows the names of 60,199 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza from 7 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025. This staggering figure includes only those whose names and ages could be identified by the Ministry of Health in Gaza up to that date.
That number is absolutely staggering, and the fact that at least 20,000 of these are children is literally making me sick every time I think about it.
To Israelis who think this is justified because your country was attacked - for every person killed in the initial attacks, your military has killed 20 children(and many more adults). And that's the ones that were outright killed, and not "just" had their limbs torn off and given lifelong disabilities. How is that proportionate, fair or in any way justifiable?
I'm not looking to defend Israel's actions or to take a political stance here, but just wanted to ask about the proportionality/fairness argument - to the best of my knowledge, a proportionality between casualties on the two sides is not an expectation of any rules of war, and I don't recall ever seeing it applied to other conflicts.
> to the best of my knowledge, a proportionality between casualties on the two sides is not an expectation of any rules of war
If you were talking about combatants, you'd be correct. The main point about Gaza is that the majority of those who are killed are civilians[1]. And most civilized countries recognize[2] that civilians should be spared during armed conflicts.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250821135825/https://www.thegu...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_I_to_the_Geneva_Conve...
That is correct, but every war should have an end at some point. To maybe ask this in a different way - how many more palestinian children have to die for the Israeli government to say "ok yeah we're done now". What is that number going to be? 20k? 100k? Every single one of them? Their stated objective is to eliminate th Hamas militants, but on the path to that goal the truly astounding civilian cost cannot justify the end, can it? Or if someone thinks it can, I'd ask - really? Surely there is a number between 0 and "every single person in Gaza" that would cause even the most hardened supporter of Israel to stop for a second?
(although maybe not, given that there are Israeli politicians saying everyone above the age of 5 in gaza should be cut down, so maybe I'm too optimistic).
Clearly your an absolute anti-semite for having any empathy for Palestinians (who are Semities themselves).
While I absolutely despise what Israel is doing in Lebanon and Iran, it's hard to blame anyone but Hamas for the Gaza casualties.
If you have no more free territory to fight on, you have lost. Give up.
What about the whole colonialism, forced displacement, and daily humiliation the Palestinians have been enduring since 1948?
If someone came to your country and did that, how radical would you be?
What a great, and tragic, visualisation ... really brings it home.
EDIT: and pathetic that it's immediately been flagged by the usual wankers.
Murdered, intentionaly ,by a zionist genocidal terrorist state.
This will get flagged again, like all the posts before it criticising the abhorrent actions of Israel.
The stranglehold of zionists in silicon valley and the US is crazy.
Gone in 25 minutes with 180 votes.
The murder of 72,000 people is just too political.