Conflict-Driven Displacement — Middle East Escalation

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Displacement events surfaced from the open record during the Iran–US–Israel escalation and its regional spillover. Continuous, source-cited, structured at Silver tier.

What this dataset is

During the Iran–US–Israel escalation and its regional spillover into Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, and the Gulf, the open record surfaces displacement events at speeds no manual desk can keep up with. Each event is structured at Silver tier — origin, destination, trigger, scope, demographics, source citations.

Example: a claim, structured

“Around 1,200 families crossed into the eastern district overnight after airstrikes hit residential blocks in the border governorate.”

Becomes a structured Silver record:

event_type:
Cross-border displacement
origin:
Border governorate
destination:
Eastern district
estimate:
≈1,200 families
trigger:
Airstrike on residential blocks
timing:
Overnight (single-night)

The full per-record property set unlocks with a subscription. Free-tier callers get the main fields shown above plus the geometry needed for the map and graph views.

Source mix at Silver

The Silver gate requires corroboration across independent source categories — multiple outlets in one category don't alone clear the bar.

  • News + wire — International + regional outlets (English, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, French) with article-level URL citation.
  • NGO statements — Public releases from accountability NGOs, protection networks, country teams.
  • Government + ministry releases — Official statements from interior ministries, refugee agencies, border authorities.
  • Verified social-media reporting — Accounts of journalists, monitors, and named witnesses with verification trail.
  • Public infrastructure signals — Border-crossing announcements, transport disruptions, airspace closures.
  • Subscriber-enriched private sources — Workspace-only — your internal partner reports, country-team feeds, kept private.

Per-record fields at Silver

  • · Event date + date precision
  • · Origin location (lat / lon / country / admin1 / admin2 / H3 cell)
  • · Destination location (same precision tree)
  • · Movement type (cross-border refugee / IDP / returnee / evacuee / unspecified)
  • · Trigger event (linked to named conflict event in the trigger ontology)
  • · Estimated number affected + estimate-precision band
  • · Demographic breakdown where reported (women / children / elderly / nationality)
  • · Vulnerability flags (medical evacuation / unaccompanied minors / detention risk)
  • · Source URLs + capture timestamps + content hashes
  • · Confidence score + corroboration count

Free-tier sees a curated subset of these fields in the inspector panel. The full schema (every field above, plus the raw extraction payload) is subscription-only.