This piece draws no map. The shape of the Gaza Strip appears only from 198,273 damage-site records assessed by UNOSAT: 123,464 structures destroyed, 17,116 severely damaged, 33,857 moderately damaged and 23,836 possibly damaged. Brighter dots are worse damage. Use the arrow keys to walk the sites from north to south, Shift with arrows to jump one hundred, Enter to read a site's record, and question mark for the caption and sources.
In three seconds: the shape of Gaza is drawn by damage alone. UNOSAT assesses that about 81% of all structures in the Strip were damaged; here is every one of the 198,273 damage sites, and the brightest marks, the destroyed structures, trace the cities.
Encodings. Each dot is one damage-site record at its assessed position. No basemap, coastline or border is drawn: the points themselves form the Strip. Brightness carries the UNOSAT damage class - destroyed (brightest), severe, moderate, possibly damaged (dimmest). City names sit at the centroid of each municipality's damage sites, for orientation only. The vignette is decoration. Focus a dot - hover, tap, or arrow keys, then Enter - to read its class, neighbourhood and municipality.
Data. “UNOSAT Gaza Strip Comprehensive Damage Assessment - 11 October 2025” (CE20231007PSE), United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), via the Humanitarian Data Exchange. Imagery of 11 October 2025 compared against sixteen earlier image sets since May 2023. 198,273 affected structures: 123,464 destroyed, 17,116 severely damaged, 33,857 moderately damaged, 23,836 possibly damaged - about 81% of all structures in the Gaza Strip. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. UNOSAT's caveats: this is a preliminary analysis, not yet validated in the field; only significant structural damage is visible in satellite imagery. 35 records UNOSAT did not class as affected are not shown.
Sources: data.humdata.org/dataset/unosat-gaza-strip-comprehensive-damage-assessment-11-october-2025 · unosat.org/products/4213. Design parts: finish tokens from the Materials Lab of the clock bases (datapoems.io/clocks/bases/, MIT, Luke Steuber) - warm dark #0a0908, ivory #e6e0d4, amber #d4a06a, route-shine #f5e0b8. One self-contained file; no external resources.
Keyboard: ← → step one site · ↑ ↓ step one site north/south · Shift+arrow jumps one hundred · Home/End first/last · Enter reads the record · Esc closes.