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Killed in Gaza 04-30 Update

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On May 5th, we received an updated list of names of those killed in Gaza up to April 30th. We've incorporated new records and existing record changes from that update.

The new list was in a PDF format that differed slightly from the prior lists that were distributed in CSV & PDF format. You can download the Ministry of Health PDF here that was used as the source for this update.

We noted the following changes to their reporting format:

  • they dropped the "source" column we previously used to track public submissions vs. official sourcing, so we added a new "unknown" value to our existing source field if a new record has no source attribute (but we've kept the old value if the record already existed)
  • they removed the date of birth field and only reported age
  • a number of records did not have an identifier, so we generated one based on the report date and their reported index (prefixed with missing-)

Change Summary

The following tables summarize the demographic changes in our Killed in Gaza list following its merge with the abovenoted Ministry list:

Demographics of Our List Before Merge

DemographicNumber%
Senior Men5662.8%
Senior Women4102.0%
Men8,11539.8%
Women4,59722.5%
Boys3,40216.7%
Girls2,95614.5%
Male (no age)1820.9%
Female (no age)1620.8%
Total Persons20,390

Demographics of Newly Added Records

DemographicNumber%
Senior Men1994.5%
Senior Women1152.6%
Men2,39653.6%
Women64714.5%
Boys63014.1%
Girls3918.8%
Male (no age)661.5%
Female (no age)220.5%
Total Persons4,466

Demographics of Our Updated List After Merge

DemographicNumber%
Senior Men7603.1%
Senior Women5242.1%
Men10,42442.3%
Women5,20421.1%
Boys4,00516.2%
Girls3,33013.5%
Male (no age)2441.0%
Female (no age)1810.7%
Total Persons24,672

Demographics of Removed Records

184 records in our prior list were not present in the latest list release (by identification number) so we removed them.

DemographicNumber%
Senior Men52.7%
Senior Women10.5%
Men8847.8%
Women4021.7%
Boys2714.7%
Girls189.8%
Male (no age)31.6%
Female (no age)21.1%
Total Persons184

We believe the higher ratio of Men in this revised list reflects the addition of community-reported sourcing. These records likely include more of those lost or missing for which remains were not received by health authorities as was the case for most of the records in the initial list distributed in January.

Merge Methodology / Commentary

Our methodology for updating existing records and accepting new ones didn't change and we detailed our approach in our prior April 13th update.

Where there were changes in names for existing records by identification ID within our accepted threshold of 30%, the breakdown was as follows:

change % upper boundnumber of occurrences
0%129
10%406
20%129
30%24

(the change threshold upper bound means that 20% would include a 12% or 18% change to the original name)

In terms of overall types of record changes across those already in our list at the time of merge, the breakdown was as follows:

fields affectednumber of occurences
Name676
None (Duplicate)399
Age and Name12
Only Age8