This essay documents the author’s efforts to preserve the testimonies of friends and colleagues in Gaza enduring the ongoing genocide in real time. The testimonies, shared with the author by text and audio messages since October 7, are stored in a database and are being used by human rights organizations in pursuit of accountability. These narratives from Gaza include accounts of multiple displacements, sexual violence, kidnappings, bombings, and starvation; they also include intricate details of families’ everyday lives, the diversity and complexity of which can get lost in the documentation of horror and devastation at such a scale. The author argues that the genocide in Gaza signals the need to radically rethink the parameters of international legal institutions and the frameworks in which they function. She posits that a granular understanding of daily life during genocide, produced through the testimonies of those who have endured it, can be invaluable in doing so.