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I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed(bkhmsi.github.io)
391 points by bjourne 14 hours ago | 81 comments
sethammons 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The presentation is powerfully well executed and by itself alone is a worthy submission.

That every mouse movement highlights lives lost is harrowing. Grains of sand on the beach, each with their own world and community.

Shame on the flaggers.

tencentshill 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Flagging is not the only strategy. At 7 hours It's already been pushed to page 7, rank 196 alongside posts from days ago. No one else will see it. Mission accomplished.

ygritte 6 hours ago | parent [-]

On https://news.ycombinator.com/active it's still on the front page.

classified 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Was it flagged? I haven't seen that and was wondering why it isn't flagged yet. Reports of harsh realities aren't usually allowed to ruin the celebration of money-printing schemes here.

JohnnyLarue 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Experts agree that this number is a vast, vast undercount.

oa335 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The next step could be to attempt to link as many of these as possible to a news article describing the Israeli actions that led to their death, and/or stories about their lives. Obviously it will be hard to attribute most of them, but I think even hundreds of accounts would be powerful.

madteacher 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The higher on the scale the people, the younger they are. This is depressing and completely unnecessary, this is cruel and still ongoing with the recent incursion in Lebanon.

It's insane that so many innocent people continue to die and Tsahal continues to justify their invasion and the death of these people. Heartbreaking.

rdevilla 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unsure why this comment merely copy pasting the summary of TFA is voted dead [0]. Perhaps this is how low the bar for "antisemitism" has fallen these days? Or is vote manipulation taking HN in the direction of /. and reddit?

    austin-cheney 6 minutes ago [dead] [–]

    This visual shows the names of 60,199 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces
    in Gaza from 7 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025. This staggering figure includes
    only those whose names and ages could be identified by the Ministry of
    Health in Gaza up to that date.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612082
classified 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thankfully by now it has been resurrected.

qoez 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

To me it just sounds like a bot comment which is against HN rules.

rdevilla 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I assure you that is not a bot account.

mxmilkiib 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

but people copy and paste pertinent info from articles all the time and have done for many many years, so why would you think it's a hard and fast sign of bot activity

joeldrapper 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They’re in age order and age 15 starts at about a quarter of the way down.

Shame on the flaggers.

PurpleRamen 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

White text on a mostly white background is not really a good choice, especially if you want to communicate something important.

Kinda unrelated, but are any good sources for deaths in that whole conflict before the 7th October, including other areas? Throwing around that number does have some impact, but does not tell the whole picture and is often dismissed as being "just" a reaction to the attack on 7th October.

therealdrag0 3 hours ago | parent [-]

At least on my iPhone the theme aesthetic is great.

yusufusta 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why did this get flagged?

birdsongs 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Unsurprising, but we know why. :(

HN is not unbiased, and not above censorship. Political things make it to the front page all the time, but this is the wrong kind of political thing. We're not supposed to talk about ----cides, at least, this ongoing one.

Zealotux 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's a large amount of people flagging that specific topic and viewpoint, it's a regular thing on HN, I'm not surprised at all.

jacquesm 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Uncomfortable truths.

nozzlegear 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Presumably for the same reason things related to e.g. American politics gets flagged: everyone knows where they stand on the topic, and there's no good discussion to be had about it here – just flame wars.

gambiting 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Literally anything related to this conflict gets flagged immediately.

UncleMeat 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The initial October attacks weren’t flagged. Violence in exactly one direction is flagged.

dlubarov 6 hours ago | parent [-]

That's a single story from a few years ago. There's been plenty of violence against Israelis since; we very rarely see those stories here. Why should we have daily discussions about one-sided anti-Israel stories, and almost none of the opposite? Not to mention very little about other conflict around the world.

gambiting 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Mentioning that 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza is anti-Israel story now?

dlubarov 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There are a lot of casualties on both sides of conflicts around the world. It is a bit suspicious when certain communities want to focus almost exclusively on one side of one conflict, while also leaving out any context about the terrorists that started the conflict and fight in civilian clothing.

gambiting 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Are there many places left in Gaza making military uniforms at the moment?

dlubarov an hour ago | parent [-]

They somehow manage to find uniforms when they do parades. In any case, the principle of distinction merely requires combatants to wear distinguishing marks. Hypothetically if they ran out of uniforms, they could use something as simple as colored armbands.

It's a basic tenet of IHL which is essential for the protection of civilians in a war zone. If the pro-Palestinian community was genuinely focused on the well-being of Gazans, they would have extremely concerned about this particular war crime, and would have urgently tried to get Hamas to stop from disguising as civilians.

gambiting 15 minutes ago | parent [-]

So the 20 thousand children killed in Gaza should have been wearing what kind of uniform to avoid behind killed? Just so I understand correctly.

>>would have urgently tried to get Hamas to stop from disguising as civilians.

So if the international community somehow pressured Hamas to wear uniforms, IDF would kill fewer children? Or they would stop their policy on waiting until a suspected Hamas combatant returns home and then blowing them up along with their family?

I just feel like that's such a dishonest, morally bankrupt take. For every single Israeli killed in the October attack, Israel has killed 20 children. But hey, Hamas militants don't wear uniforms sometimes, damn I wish the world would talk more about this war crime too.

I'm just trying to think of when my own country was under German occupation and 2 millions of our citizens were killed by Nazis - if internet was around back then I'm sure someone would have said that it's really suspicious no one talks about how our resistance forces don't walk around the streets in their uniforms or you know "at least wear an armband". If only anyone really cared about our well being surely someone should have pointed it out, maybe UK could have sent some strongly worded letters to the underground leaders to just wear uniforms when outside, then(and only then) talking about the genocide would finally be fine.

93po 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Literally the first comment I read was of the sentiment "Palestinians are all terrorists and deserve this" so it's not really a wonder why no one wants to read this style of conversation

throwaw12 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thanks for creating this, sad state of the world we live in.

I see babies there who have seen this world for less than a day!

I know they don't see things well at that stage, their eyes haven't evolved yet, BUT they weren't given an opportunity to see it!!!

Can't express myself anymore

bilalbayram 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

These are the ones that we know the names of, there is at least this much of more people that we are not even aware

boruto 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just asking as i dont know, what does the sound represent? prayer?

khaledh 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's a poem called "On This Land": https://readalittlepoetry.com/2025/10/06/on-this-land-by-mah...

Protostome 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hamas enjoyed the death of each and everyone of them for sure. Otherwise, it wouldn't have embarked on this stupid war

manyaoman 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Someone should create and post this kind of a website about Iran's protester deaths and see if it gets flagged too.

oa335 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The data has been compiled, wouldn’t be that hard: https://www.hra-iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The-Crim...

I’m betting the age and gender breakdown of deaths will be a lot different, as most Palestinians were killed in their homes with their entire families whereas most Iranians were killed in the streets.

Iran government claims ~3000 deaths, this report attributes ~7000 deaths to government response. The numbers thrown around on twitter seem to grow higher as this war drags on though.

raxxorraxor 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Someone should make a statement that Iran killed people on a similar magnitude and it isn't commonly called a genocide and see if it doesn't get downvoted because there are different standards for Jews.

ejcho 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Seriously? Can we just acknowledge that this staggering loss of human life is appalling and heartbreaking regardless of how you brand it?

nojvek 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One of the nice things I like about hn.algolia.com is that it doesn’t care about flagging.

If it’s voted or commented on, it bubbles up and gets sorted by a deterministic algo.

I think flagging is abused in HN as a form of censorship.

gambiting 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That number is absolutely staggering, and the fact that at least 20,000 of these are children is literally making me sick every time I think about it.

To Israelis who think this is justified because your country was attacked - for every person killed in the initial attacks, your military has killed 20 children(and many more adults). And that's the ones that were outright killed, and not "just" had their limbs torn off and given lifelong disabilities. How is that proportionate, fair or in any way justifiable?

falcor84 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not looking to defend Israel's actions or to take a political stance here, but just wanted to ask about the proportionality/fairness argument - to the best of my knowledge, a proportionality between casualties on the two sides is not an expectation of any rules of war, and I don't recall ever seeing it applied to other conflicts.

magicalhippo 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> to the best of my knowledge, a proportionality between casualties on the two sides is not an expectation of any rules of war

If you were talking about combatants, you'd be correct. The main point about Gaza is that the majority of those who are killed are civilians[1]. And most civilized countries recognize[2] that civilians should be spared during armed conflicts.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250821135825/https://www.thegu...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_I_to_the_Geneva_Conve...

gambiting 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is correct, but every war should have an end at some point. To maybe ask this in a different way - how many more palestinian children have to die for the Israeli government to say "ok yeah we're done now". What is that number going to be? 20k? 100k? Every single one of them? Their stated objective is to eliminate th Hamas militants, but on the path to that goal the truly astounding civilian cost cannot justify the end, can it? Or if someone thinks it can, I'd ask - really? Surely there is a number between 0 and "every single person in Gaza" that would cause even the most hardened supporter of Israel to stop for a second?

(although maybe not, given that there are Israeli politicians saying everyone above the age of 5 in gaza should be cut down, so maybe I'm too optimistic).

jfengel 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It kinda doesn't have a body count limit. After October 7, practically all Israelis (even ones who are deeply opposed to the current government, the settlers, etc) said "This will not happen again, ever. And if that means sterilizing the Gaza Strip of all life, so be it."

I heard that from many people, including a 90 year old nun. (I could not have imagined what Sister Claire-Edith would look like furious.) They simply couldn't imagine any course of action that would allow that to occur again.

That didn't mean that exterminating Gaza was inevitable. They would have accepted a complete and unconditional surrender of its leadership, along with freeing all of the hostages, and allowing an outside force to establish a new government.

I'm not saying that's fair; I'm trying to explain what the parameters were.

It's clear (now more than ever) that the current government would have faced a quandary if that had happened. They wanted the war, more or less as it was carried out. But had Hamas surrendered, a lot of Israelis would have said "that's enough", and it would be much harder to continue in the face of public opposition.

That never happened, so it continued. Eventually they did get fatigued, with time more than body count. Hostages were exchanged and Israel started to prep for the Iran war. (Iran played a significant part in funding that October 7 attack, though it's indirect enough that a lot of Israelis do not support this war.)

gambiting 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks for such a complete answer.

The question I have is - what now then? Because the war is still going on. What event is the Israeli state waiting for now, exactly? Whatever remains of Hamas leadership to say "we give up"? Would that even suffice? Because right now it looks like Israel will just continue killing people in Gaza until they get bored or run out of munitions, or have something else to do(like the war with Iran and other neighbours - which doesn't formally end the hostilities in Gaza anyway, just might ignore them for a bit). If that's the "plan" then yeah, it will continue until everyone there is dead, moved out, or.....I don't know if there is a 3rd option. And at that point it's just a systematic eradication of the entire population, which is precisely what genocide is.

jfengel 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The war in Gaza is over. There are still deaths, but they're the "ordinary" deaths of two countries who hate each other. Hamas is back to chucking rockets over the wall; Israel is back to disproportionate responses.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_att... (Nobody has created a 2026 article yet.)

At that pace, it can continue indefinitely. They are replacing people and ammunition faster than they're killing/using them.

The war in Iran is supposed to end that, or at least shift it. Without Iranian support, Gaza could collapse.

What happens after that, I cannot even begin to guess. Maybe the Palestinian Authority from the West Bank takes over. They've got an OK-ish relationship with Israel, though Israel keeps testing that relationship with more and more settlements by religious fanatics.

It's at least as likely that Netanyahu loses the election in October, at which point he may be prosecuted. Nobody in Israel is exactly in favor of the Palestinians, but there are at least some who aren't going to actively antagonize them. That will depend on their relationship with the US, which may change in November.

jacquesm 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The only way this war will ever end is when either Gaza or Israel has disappeared. The colonists won't stop, ever.

vkou 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Proportionate casualties is not a requirement, but targeting civilians is a war crime. The IDF has repeatedly and actively targeted civilians, even when no military targets are present in the area. They have not prosecuted the soldiers and commanders that have carried out those crimes.

This makes the entire regime culpable, and given that it is a democracy, the electorate shares a part in that culpability.

Notice that the entire polity of Palestinians is being held fully culpable for the actions of... Its unelected leadership.

... Also, using a war to displace an occupied civilian population is a genocide.

CommanderData 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Clearly your an absolute anti-semite for having any empathy for Palestinians (who are Semities themselves).

austin-cheney 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This visual shows the names of 60,199 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza from 7 Oct 2023 to 31 Jul 2025. This staggering figure includes only those whose names and ages could be identified by the Ministry of Health in Gaza up to that date.

LightBug1 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What a great, and tragic, visualisation ... really brings it home.

EDIT: and pathetic that it's immediately been flagged by the usual wankers.

metalman 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Murdered, intentionaly ,by a zionist genocidal terrorist state.

4gotunameagain 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This will get flagged again, like all the posts before it criticising the abhorrent actions of Israel.

The stranglehold of zionists in silicon valley and the US is crazy.

Ardren 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Gone in 25 minutes with 180 votes.

The murder of 72,000 people is just too political.

yanhangyhy 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

its ironic that Israel becomes the new Nazi

vincnetas 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

irony is too week a word for for this situation...

yanhangyhy 13 hours ago | parent [-]

yeah..

PurpleRamen 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They are not, and it's not helping the message to spread this wrong picture.

Nazis had a dedicated machinery, based on crude racism and conspiracy ideology, which was actively seeking and executing their genocide. Israels lunatics lack this, their aim is stealing land, and the mass killings are just a side effect of their religious bullshit.

Not understanding this difference derails the communication about this problem.

tremon 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can you explain the difference then between "crude racism and conspiracy ideology" on the one side and "Israel's religious bullshit" on the other? Because I don't see much difference between the nazi view that Aryan blood is superior and Israel's view that Arabic lives are inferior. And Israel's perpetual self-victimization and insistence that every Palestinian civilian is a Hamas terrorist and that they're hiding in every building sure sound like conspiracy ideologies to me.

PurpleRamen 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> Can you explain the difference then between "crude racism and conspiracy ideology" on the one side and "Israel's religious bullshit" on the other?

Jews have a history of 3000 years. Nazis have a history of around 20 Years.

Jews have religious scriptures, whose purpose is more practical and positive overall (I guess). Nazis build their whole Ideology mainly on fake news, greed and their harmed ego, completely negative.

> Because I don't see much difference between the nazi view that Aryan blood is superior and Israel's view that Arabic lives are inferior.

Israel is not moving out to cleanse the world from inferior blood. The Nazis did. Their whole history is a big copping on the big wars outcome and how bad Germany suffered from it and how they seek reparation for it and revenge on those they consider the culprits. Of course, it's significant more complicated than that. My point is, they both are bad, doing stupid shit, but their motivation and the lines they are willing to cross are very different. Israel whole purpose is to control their holy country, they don't care about the rest of the world, but they do care about anyone threatening their little paradise. And everything else is just result of the process.

orwin 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, agree. Nazi are typical fascists. Apartheid regimes might look fascistic at first glance, but they do not fill all the Umberto Eco criteria, or, if I go deeper (and imho to a more universal way to detect fascism), they do not have the same mythos as fascists, in particular those needs to point to internal enemies, 'traitors' if you will, that apartheid state don't (the discriminated population are not considered traitors, merely inferior). While some mediatic Zionists are fascist or at least have huge fascistic tendancy for sure (calling someone 'self-hating Jew' is to me a sign), the state isn't.

ipsin 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It really is an indictment of this site that any mention of the genocide in Gaza is flagged almost instantly.

myrmidon 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Note: Flagging on topics like this typically occurs from user action, not moderators.

These are not typical sockpuppet accounts either, but mostly established users that (conjecture) don't care about having the same non-technical debate among non-experts devolve into flaming and namecalling.

See relevant statements and context from moderators here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The best thing you can do to foster discussion of topics like this is to keep the discussion civil and interesting.

Blaming the site itself is simply incorrect.

birdsongs 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'll give it time, perhaps the post was auto flagged from bots and mods can correct for it. Because political content is often here, and this is also a tech project as well.

If it stays removed this is probably my last interaction on HN.

It's just blatant censorship. There's not even any real political message here. It's just a fucking memorial for the tens of thousands of children (and tens of thousands of adults) that were killed, that someone coded up.

hk__2 13 hours ago | parent [-]

> There's not even any real political message here.

Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website. Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.

manyaoman 12 hours ago | parent [-]

> Of course there is, it’s right there in the title of the website.

What's political about the title?

> Even making a website to remember these deaths and not other ones is a political choice.

Or maybe they realized the other ones are already covered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38083001

hk__2 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> What's political about the title?

Calling this a genocide is a political message. That doesn’t mean it’s not a valid message, but saying it’s not political is hypocritical.

> Or maybe they realized the other ones are already covered

This one never hit the homepage.

birdsongs 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Thanks for replying, I didn't want to engage in something that felt deliberately bad-faith, but you said everything I wanted to.

hk__2 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Please point out where is the bad faith. You seem to think "political" is a negative label that implies criticism. It’s not.

TiredOfLife 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same with flat earth discussions

lejalv 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This got flagged because genocide is too lowly a concern for the high, pure souls of HN.

Look, look sideways... until you break your neck.

Protostome 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is not a genocide, this is a war. People lived without it for so long they forgot how it looks. Especially when one of the sides actually wants its own citizens to be killed en-masse to serve a political purpose

jacquesm 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We don't do politics. We just do 'curious conversation'. /s

throwaw12 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

@dang, please make sure this wont get flagged.

This might not be 100% technical content, but the work, visualizations are technical.

So many people upvoted because they have empathy to both types of content, and downvotes to this type of content comes most of the time from bots controlled by IDF

blackoil 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Political content is acceptable as long it is negative about certain countries, this isn't about one of them.

benterix 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Which countries? Negative submissions about China and Russia get flagged near-instantly. Frequently also about the USA. People don't like a topic - they flag it.

hk__2 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There’s nothing technically interesting here.

sethammons 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Nothing? At all? The visual is not technology and not interesting?

hk__2 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Being "technology" doesn’t make something interesting. A writeup of the author about their work would have been interesting, but they haven’t even published the code nor written anything about it.

4gotunameagain 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

@dang: Allowing the mass flagging of posts like that makes ycombinator complicit.

hknceykbx 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This website was updated from personal page to this in a single commit. Suspicious