Can you help us preserve the truth?

Support IPS-USA’s Critical Documentation Efforts

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Dear friend,
I write to you today with both urgency and hope. Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the Institute for Palestine Studies has been at the forefront of documenting the impact of the genocide on Palestinian lives, society, and infrastructure. With Israel’s assault expanding in the West Bank, this work has never been more vital.
Since October 2023, we have launched six groundbreaking online databases that document key sectors in Palestine—health, education, agriculture, cultural heritage, and beyond. These resources serve as living archives, continuously updated to track Israeli crimes and human rights violations. They provide essential data, expert analysis, and firsthand accounts, ensuring that researchers, human rights organizations, policymakers, and future generations have access to the truth.
Here’s what we have achieved so far:
  • Gaza Health Documentation Database (Arabic & English): Documents attacks on hospitals, health centers, and medical staff, including killings, abductions, and disappearances. Continuously updated, this database provides expert analyses and serves as a vital archival resource on the assault on Palestinian healthcare.
  • Gaza Education Documentation Database (Arabic): Provides accurate information, a media archive, and recorded testimonies from educational institutions in Gaza, their targeting and damage caused by the Israeli occupation, and the lives lost in the education sector.
  • Prisoners & Detention Database (Arabic): Provides information on the worsening conditions of Palestinian prisoners since October 7, 2023, including mass arrests and unprecedented abuse inside Israeli prisons.
  • Gaza Environment and Agriculture Documentation Database (Arabic): Documents the targeting of agricultural associations, water and sewage networks, farmland, public parks, and the fishing sector during the genocide. The database provides expert analyses, policy papers, media records, satellite maps, and verified testimonies, offering a comprehensive resource on the environmental and agricultural impact of the war in Gaza.
  • Gaza Culture Database (Arabic): Documents, analyzes, and presents the systematic targeting of culture and urban heritage in Gaza since October 7, 2023, by collecting data and assessing damage to cultural institutions and professionals.
  • West Bank & Jerusalem Database (Arabic): Tracks the assault on the West Bank and Jerusalem since October 7, 2023, through an extensive database and interactive map documenting the attacks across various governorates.
  • Coming Soon: IPS is developing The Jerusalem Documentation Platform to record Israeli violations and policies against Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents post-October 7. It will track political suppression, home demolitions, settlement expansion, attacks on religious sites, residency revocations, and increased surveillance.
These databases have reached millions worldwide—our website saw over 4 million visits, and our social media platforms engaged 10.3 million people last year alone. But this work must continue and expand. To ensure these documentation efforts remain accessible in multiple languages, stay updated in real time, and reach those working for justice and accountability, we need your support.
Every contribution—large or small—makes a tangible impact. Your donation enables us to:
  • Maintain and expand our documentation projects.
  • Provide translation and multilingual access to critical data and analysis.
  • Expand the depth and reach of our documentation projects through rigorous research, expert analyses, and comprehensive archival resources.
IPS-USA is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization, and your donation is fully tax-deductible. Established in 1983 and located in Washington, DC, the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA (IPS-USA) is an independent, non-profit research institution, unaffiliated with any political organization or government, which maintains full editorial independence. It is the oldest institute in the world devoted exclusively to the documentation, preservation, and knowledge production on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Your support today helps preserve history, defend truth, and advance justice.
Thank you for standing with us in this crucial mission.
Sincerely,
Rashid Khalidi

President, Institute for Palestine Studies-USA