This story map traces the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and focuses on Gaza, specifically through the 2005 disengagement and subsequent blockade. While peace has not been achieved, progress toward the peace process has occurred. The final story map scene questions whether or not peace is possible.
This story map is intended to help understand Gaza's landscape and how Israel's blockade and occupation and Hamas' leadership has shaped Gaza's border, history, and current status.
Please view the storymap here!
This is a story map hosted on my personal GitHub server. I have employed Leaflet as my JavaScript library for developing my map.
There are a variety of functions included in my story map. Some simple functions include the use of a video for the introduction page, the onClick function to label the Gaza crossing points, and a Leaflet slider to view side-by-side maps.
Various Leaflet functions, GitHub, Bootstrap, Google Maps, jQuery, Font Awesome, and Google Font are all used in this story map.
Thank you to Dr. Bo Zhao for the storymap.js framework.
Thanks to B'tselem for providing the majority of the geospatial data for this project.
- Video: The background video on the front page was clipped from Youtube and spliced together into a shorter video. Thanks to Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), an Australia public broadcasting network.
- Geographic data: B'tselem
- Favicon: The favicon image was acquired from Wikipedia.