The project HEC – History, Erasure and Creation of Gaza’s Visual Archives aims to promote research on Gaza’s visual records in the 20th and 21st centuries. The project intends to analyze different types of archives created by political institutions, humanitarian agencies, non-governmental organizations, as well as local archives in Gaza, with a special focus on the processes of creation and preservation, as well as the history of their destruction or relocation. HEC deepens the archival history of the sources and records of Gaza's visual archives, with specific attention to the UNRWA Photo and Visual Archives. It also promotes the analysis of the definition and evolution of the concept of displacement, retracing visual patterns, continuities and ruptures in its perceptions and representations during the 20th and 21st centuries. Moreover, it fosters the creation of new forms of public digital history, sociological research and visual analysis on records related to displacement, connecting scholars and the wide audience, also through the collaboration between historians, archivists, and practitioners, in order to define and promote good practices of documental conservation, thus avoiding the loss of a mass of paper and digital documentation. Doing so, the project aims at contributing to the understanding of the history of the Gaza Strip through its documentary sources, including the traces produced by individuals, families, or institutions that have been erased by the violence of ongoing events.