Method

What the board is

The board answers two questions every day: can the rest of the internet reach Palestine, and are the people who report from it safe to work. Each row is a measurement or a case, with its source, the time it was read and a grade.

We do not grade on feeling. A row changes state only when its source changes, and the change is printed with a date.

Networks: how a row is read

Network rows come from IODA, the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis project at Georgia Tech. IODA watches whether a region's address blocks are visible in global routing (BGP) and whether devices in them answer probes (active probing). We use both.

A bar is the median of the day's samples. The thread is the mean over 1–6 October 2023. IODA counts blocks of 256 addresses, not people, and places blocks with a commercial geolocation database, so read the rows as trends.

• IODA counts blocks of 256 internet addresses, not people. A block that answers may hold one device or a hundred.
• IODA places blocks with a commercial geolocation database. A block registered to a Gaza operator but announced from elsewhere can be counted in another region, so read the rows as trends, not exact sizes.
• Data © Georgia Tech Research Corporation, published here with credit to IODA.
• Two IODA alerts for the West Bank this month, on 15 October at 22:20 UTC and on 18 October at midnight, were not outages there: the same drop hit Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Gaza at the same minutes, a gap in IODA's own probing. We do not count them.
• West Bank blocks answering probes are about four times their 2023 level. That points to a change in how IODA probes, not to four times as many people online, so we compare the routed count with the pre-war level instead.

Press and speech: how an entry is filed

Every entry names who said it: a union, a prisoners' group, a press-freedom monitor, a wire agency, a court. Counts carry the date of the count. When two monitors disagree, we print both. We do not publish footage a fact-checker has found to be altered, not even as a still.

Grades

Every state is drawn from the same net: a cell that holds, thins or tears, a single knot, a run of knots, a loose end, two threads paused.

Networks

Down

Below a tenth of its level before the war.

Degraded

Measurably below its pre-war level.

Steady

No change worth a headline in 30 days.

Restored

Back after an outage we reported.

Press & speech

Incident

One event, with a place and a date.

Pattern

A trend a named monitor documents.

Open

A case still unresolved.

Stalled

A case with no progress reported.

Resolved

A case that ended: a release, a ruling.

Recognised

Work that won a prize or a hearing.

Photographs

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under open licences. Each shows the person, the place or the thing in the entry, captioned with where and when it was taken. Without an honest photograph, an entry carries its grade instead.

Corrections

We correct errors in the open. A corrected entry says what changed and when, and the change is listed here.

No corrections in this edition.

To ask for one, write to [email protected] with the entry's address and what is wrong.