Over the past 23 months, the Israeli army has killed nearly 3,000 people as they attempted to obtain humanitarian aid

Nearly 20,000 people have been injured. “These are not isolated incidents," says Adil Haque, an international law professor at Rutgers University in the US and one of several legal experts The New Humanitarian shared database findings with before publication. "They're not just similar incidents. They are a pattern, and reflect policy and an acceptance on the part of the state that this should continue indefinitely."