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Tracking airstrikes: Inside the Israel-Hamas war [Video]

Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, there have been over 300 verified incidents that Scripps News has tracked coordinates for where civilians were killed in airstrikes in Gaza.

The airstrikes are being tracked by a group called Airwars, a nonprofit transparency watchdog based in the United Kingdom that tracks, assesses and archives cases of civilian harm during conflicts. It draws on everything from news reports to Facebook and YouTube to verify its reports.

Airwars said those 300-plus incidents are just the first confirmations of what are likely many more deaths. So far, it’s only investigated about 10% of the reports it’s received.

“So if you’re just talking about intensity in terms of volume, what we’ve seen in Gaza within that first month was already multiple times over more intense than what we’ve seen in other places,” said Airwars director Emily Tripp.

Tripp said Israel’s air campaign is one of the most intense campaigns Airwars has covered.

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