WHEN armed Israeli soldiers boarded a flotilla of boats trying to deliver food and medicine to Gaza on Wednesday night, two web developers in Glasgow scrambled to keep track of the vessels as millions of people worldwide tuned in to monitor their fate.
As grainy footage from onboard cameras broadcast the raids live on the flotilla's website, the developers updated the status of the vessels in real-time and posted short videos of each takeover. The clicks were unprecedented, they said: the site registered 2.5 million visits on Wednesday and 3.5 million on Thursday.
"I have never seen numbers like that – not on a website I've ever made," Reuters cited Lizzie Malcolm, the co-director of Rectangle, a design and software development studio that helped track the vessels on behalf of the organisers saying.
New Flotilla En Route In High-Profile Campaign
The Global Sumud Flotilla was seeking to breach an Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, which has been decimated by a two-year Israeli assault.
[SRC] https://newswav.com/article/how-the-gaza-aid-flotilla-used-cameras-and-data-to-win-global-attention-A2510_QQBoiJ
