Our Mission

Welcome to Palestine Watch! The purpose of this website is to inform you about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, and, if you'd like, how you can help! Here, you'll be able to find different news sources about the latest events in the conflict, as well as support groups that you can donate to to help those in need. You'll also be able to find information about other countries that are involved in the conflict.

Members

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Aryan Samal

My name is Aryan Samal, I am a junior CS student. I like kayaking, cliff jumping, and trying new foo...

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  • Role: Backend
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Jeremy Nguyen

Hi, my name is Jeremy Nguyen, and I am currently a junior at UT Austin studying computer science. I ...

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  • Role: Full Stack
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Kenny Nguyen

Hello World! My name is Kenny Nguyen, and I am a junior at UT Austin studying computer science. I ha...

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  • Role: Frontend
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Rohan Damani

My name is Rohan Damani, and I'm a junior at UT Austin pursuing a degree in computer science and mat...

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Will Matherne

My name is Will Matherne, and I'm a junior computer science student. I like playing chess, soccer, a...

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  • No. of unit tests created: 20
  • Role: Full Stack

Overall Stats

Total No. of Issues: 0
Total No. of Commits: 0
Total No. of Unit Tests: 0

Sources

CFR Global Conflict Tracker
History of the Palestine Conflict
Britannica overview on Palestine

Palestine Causality Toll: 42,385 Palestinians Killed

Data

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: Connecting to local groups

We used web scraping from this website to get information on our support group instances.

Rest Countries

We used this API to get information on our country instances.

News Data

We used this API to get information on different news sources and articles

Tools

Docker

We used Docker to ensure a consistent environment across testing, development, and production. This made it much easier for us to deploy our website without worrying about different machine configurations.

AWS

We used AWS to host our website infrastructure.

Bootstrap

We used Bootstrap as a CSS framework, allowing us to streamline our front-end development.

Axios

We used Axios as a method of sending HTTP requests in order to fetch data from our APIs.

Links

Gitlab Repository
Postman API