22,355 Israeli military aircraft have violated Lebanese airspace over the last 16 years. For the first time this information is made publicly accessible at AirPressure.info. This website has aggregated, transcribed, and developed a comprehensive, searchable, and interactive database to make the Israeli illegal aerial invasions of Lebanon visible in their totality.

Constantly hearing hostile jets and drones overhead, residents of Lebanon live in a state of precarity; the potential of full scale aerial bombardment is a daily possibility. The disturbing roar of Fighter jets tearing up the coastline and the persistent buzz of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles circling the southern regions have become a familiar part of the Lebanese soundscape. Yet till now there has been no easy way of accessing information about what or just how many of these aircraft are in the sky. AirPressure.info has recorded that 8,297 fighter jets and 13,203 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have violated the Lebanese skies since 2007. These invasive acts are not short flyovers but rather last an average of 3 hours and 17 minutes. The combined duration of these flights amounts to 3,114 days. That is 8.5 years of jets and drones continually occupying the sky.

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AirPressure.info
is an investigation by
Earshot – an investigative agency that employs cutting-edge audio analysis techniques; listening to, with and on behalf of people affected by corporate, state, and environmental violence.

Principal Investigator:
Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Research team:
Nabla Yahya
Ahmad Baydoun (2020—2021)

Website design and programming:
Mortiz Ebeling

Contact:
investigations@earshot.ngo

A specially commissioned study: “An assessment of Aircraft noise above Lebanon” was conducted by Professor Antonino Filippone from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester.

This web project was principally supported by:

Support also generously came from: the 12th Berlin Biennale, Sharjah Art Foundation. The research on this site will partly inform a Future Fields Commission for the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

With special thanks and appreciation to:
Maan Abu Taleb, Alserkal Arts Foundation (Abdelmonem Alserkal, Vilma Jurkute and Nada Raza), Hoor Al Qasimi, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Skye Arundathi Thomas, Lina Attallah, Kader Attia, Kadhem Brini, Irene Calderoni, Baris Dogrosuz, Marie-Sophie Dorsch, Lama Fakih, Ahmad Ghossien, Elias Hanna, Charlotte Higgins, Gabriele Horn, Mariam Ibrahim, Peter Kiefer, Nesrine Khodr, Omar Kholeif, Adel Kudsi, Carolin Lauer, Matthias Lilienthal, Samaneh Moafi, Lina Mounzer, Ana Nicolaescu, Nora Razian, Hassan Safsouf, Susan Schuppli, Moe Shoucair, Reem Shadid, Amanda Sroka, Sam Talbot, Sebastien Tiew, Christine Tohme, Aya Yaman, Eyal Weizman, Chris Woods.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an independent investigator or Private Ear. His work focus on sound and linguistics and has been used as evidence at the UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organisations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture.
Abu Hamdan received his PhD in 2017 from Goldsmiths College University of London and in 2021 completed a professorship at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where he developed his research for AirPressure.info. Past fellowships have been held at the University of Chicago and the New School, New York.

Moritz Ebeling is a graphic designer and programmer from Germany creating digital information archives.