we havent seen much coming in from gaza/israel- i’m assuming thats for a number of reasons:
1) with such a huge amount of activity going on people dont have the time to send out texts- those who are sending out information are sending video/images (if they get a connection) to show the aftermath of a missile strike etc.
2) the networks are going crazy and are very busy, also with the power outage in the area getting hold of people in the conflict zone is difficult- so i’m guessing sending information out is just as difficult

we’re going to try and make a push to get the numbers known within gaza over the coming days- will update you on results as and when it comes in.

as we’re one of the only international news orginisation with journalists in gaza itself, we have an extensive network of news coming in- so we are trying to update the map as quick as possible based on news from our correspondents.

our head developer, Morad, added a cool feature as well- people can submit a report to us via twitter. We have an official twitter account providing updates on the situation, if you reply to our account @AJGaza it comes into the Ushahidi console (eg: @AJGaza fighting with ground forces in bayt hanun)

thanks the everyone for helping us get this up the ground…. we have quite a lot of feedback and ideas for platform. will try and provide updates at a later stage

thanks for the support!