Our latest findings on the al-Ahli hospital blast: using 3D trajectory analysis, we dispute the Israeli military’s claim that the hospital was struck by a misfiring Palestinian rocket from a salvo of 17, with most of the damage caused by unspent rocket propellant.
Our analysis shows that all 17 rockets travelled 1.8-2km at 500-630m/s and stopped flaring at a 1km altitude, ~4km west of al-Ahli. According to an aerospace expert, these figures indicate that all rockets would have finished burning their propellant while still in mid-flight.
These recent findings follow our previous analysis, which debunked claims made by an Israeli spokesperson about two videos he alleged showed the rocket responsible for the hospital blast:
The devastating explosion at al-Ahli hospital has come to epitomise the information war surrounding Israel’s post-7 October invasion of Gaza. Using our 3D model, we will continue to track the dynamic airspace over Gaza to challenge key pieces of Israeli disinformation.
Since this last post from 20 October, @WHO reports that there have been more than 350 attacks on healthcare in Gaza, and over 750 across the Occupied Palestine Territory.
We’re honoured to announce a major new project supported by @wellcometrust.
UNLEARNING ‘EXCITED DELIRIUM’ brings together a world-class team to confront an urgent health, human rights, racial & social justice issue. Meet our partners below…
The project builds on decades of activism on race and policing by Stafford Scott, of @tottenhamrights and a Guest Professor with FA here at Goldsmiths. The seeds for this project were sown during 2021’s unforgettable WAR INNA BABYLON at @icalondon ica.art/exhibitions/wa…
In 2022, a major report by @p4hr exposed the racist origins of ‘Excited Delirium’ (ExD). Despite no scientific basis, ExD and its inheritor ABD are still often referred to when racialised men are killed by police.
Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza.
Each military advance flattens homes and infrastructure in its path, threatening the erasure of millennia-old Gaza City, and displacing the people sheltering there. Most of the areas in southern Gaza which the military have allocated for relocation are within ‘no-go’ zones, or in areas unsuitable for habitation.
Israeli troops are advancing towards Gaza City from three directions: Jabalia in the north, Shujaiya in the east, and—most recently—the Netzarim Corridor in the south. This leaves Palestinians with only one place to go: towards the coast, along al-Rashid Road and into southern Gaza.
A comparison of satellite images from 9 and 25 August reveals the rapid dismantling of dense tent camps in Gaza City as Israel’s ground invasion has advanced. Meanwhile, tents, homes, markets, and community kitchens in the rest of the city have instead been subject to relentless bombardment, leaving the besieged, starving population with few options but to flee south.
NEW: Salman Abu Sitta is a Nakba survivor and historian of Palestine. Together, we digitally reconstructed his birthplace, the village of al-Ma’in, exploring its history and documenting how, in 1948, the village was destroyed and its people forcibly expelled: forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…
On 14 May 1948, al-Ma’in was occupied and demolished by Zionist forces.
We reconstructed the village to uncover its layered history — from its vibrant agricultural life, with a 95-metre deep well and a bayarah, to the 60,000 dunams (15,000 acres) of land cultivated by the Abu Sitta family, mostly wheat and barley.
FA has documented a pattern of Israeli attacks on areas into which they have previously instructed civilians in Gaza to evacuate. Our research confirms that the Israeli military carried out multiple attacks in areas towards which civilians had been directed, either on the same day as the evacuation order, or on the day after. See more: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/updates/a…
1) On the morning of 23 Mar 2025, the Israeli military issued an evacuation order for Tel al-Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah, directing civilians to move northeast. That evening, there was an airstrike northeast of Tel al-Sultan, in Khan Younis, that hit the Nasser Medical Complex, the largest hospital in the area.
2) On the morning of 7 Apr 2025, the Israeli military issued an evacuation order to Deir al-Balah, directing civilians to move southwest. Later that day, there was an attack on a residential building southwest of Deir al-Balah. The following day, there were two attacks in areas southwest of Deir al-Balah.
Israel has designated the majority of the Gaza Strip for evacuation. 34 evacuation orders have been issued to civilians in Gaza since the dissolution of the ceasefire on 18 March 2025. Many of these orders define differing boundaries for the militarised buffer zone in the east of Gaza, gradually expanding the area designated for evacuation. See more: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/updates/i…
We have documented 4 instances where the declared boundaries of the buffer zone have subsumed areas previously subject to evacuation orders. As of 3 June 2025, the buffer zone has expanded to encompass the municipality of Rafah, as well as areas to the east of Khan Younis and in the north of Gaza.
For example, an evacuation order was issued to the municipality of Rafah on 31 March and 1 April. In an evacuation order issued on 6 April, the declared buffer zone expanded to encompass the areas previously designated for evacuation.
Israel is constructing a second militarised ‘corridor’ in Gaza, to expand their control of the Strip. Plans for the Morag Corridor were announced on 2 April; since that time, we’ve identified widespread destruction throughout the remains of Rafah city, and several new Israeli military outposts. Follow this developing situation in our new mapping portal: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/updates/m…
A comparison of satellite imagery from 3 April and 11 May reveals how entire areas of central Rafah have been destroyed by the Israeli military.
During the same timeframe, the Israeli military destroyed dozens of buildings and greenhouses, as well as agricultural land, to the north of Rafah, to make way for the construction of the Morag Corridor.