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We have corrected an issue with our West Bank Daily dataset involving the cumulative count of settler attacks that we build using OCHA's weekly updates. The correction relates to our reporting of this number, not the underlying data we collect from OCHA.

On December 16, 2024, we incorporated OCHA's count of settler attacks in our total number, bringing the cumulative count of settler attacks since October 7, 2023 to 1,768. On the following day, December 17th, we kept the cumulative count set to the prior value of 1,736. This continued until recently which has led to an undercount of 32 settler attacks. We've fixed this continuity issue by updating all report values from and including December 17th, 2024 to build on each other. Each report date since then will have been increased by 32.

We've updated our process to ensure this doesn't occur again.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) announced today in their regular Flash Update that their reporting frequency would be changing from the cadence we've grown used to.

For the West Bank in particular, for which our dataset is affected, Flash Reports will only be issued on a weekly basis and the wider report on the region will be issued at most three times a week.

Going forward we will continue to update our daily datasets for Gaza and the West Bank at the same time, but we've now introduced a new field to the West Bank daily casualties dataset called flash_source. This field will be one of the following values:

• un which indicates that the values for the given date were reported in a UN OCHA Flash Update for that date; or
• fill which indicates that the values were from a UN OCHA Flash Update for a prior date

If a subsequent update includes specific information for a date we previously marked as fill that allows us to provide more accurate numbers, we will update previously reported days in the time series where more specific values are available. For the most part, "fill" values will just be the last reported values for the latest report date where flash_source is equal to un.

In a continuing effort to provide data that can be used to tell the Palestinian story since October 7th, we're adding a new Daily Casualties dataset for the West Bank. This dataset aims to complement our existing time series for Gaza so that they can be combined as needed.

We aim to update both datasets daily at the same time, and their latest values are now also reflected in a new V3 version of our Summary dataset. You can still access the existing V2 summary dataset and we will continue to update it as before, but we encourage upgrading.