# Vocabulary
Hub: [[Topics/Gaza War Destruction and Casualty Data/Gaza War Destruction and Casualty Data|Gaza War Destruction and Casualty Data]]
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CDA | Comprehensive Damage Assessment: UNOSAT's structure-by-structure satellite classification |
| Destroyed / severely / moderately / possibly damaged | UNOSAT's four damage classes. "Total affected" is the sum of all four |
| Structure vs housing unit | A structure is a building footprint. Housing units are UNOSAT's estimate of the dwellings inside (320,622 damaged units across 198,273 affected structures in Oct 2025) |
| MoH | The Gaza Ministry of Health (Hamas-run), the source of the running death and injury counts |
| Sehatty | The MoH's online portal (sehatty.ps), the deaths source @seekersomething cites |
| Yellow Line | The withdrawal line in the Oct 2025 ceasefire; Israel stayed in control of the areas behind it ([BBC Verify](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mxylxw48yo)) |
| Buffer zone | The razed strip along the Israel–Gaza perimeter, about 1 km wide by Apr 2025 per CNN |
| Philadelphi corridor | The strip along the Gaza–Egypt border near Rafah ◻ |
| Sentinel-2 | The European Space Agency's free optical satellites at 10 m resolution ◻, which @seekersomething uses through sentinelbird.com |
| Aman | Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate |