Published at: 24/06/2025 01:16 PM

According to a new report released this month by the Harvard Dataverse platform, it reveals that at least 377,000 Palestinians have been “disappeared” by the Israeli armed forces since October 2023, when their military offensive on the Gaza Strip began.

Indiscriminate attacks against the civilian population and the systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid by the Israeli army have caused a serious demographic collapse in Gaza.

After analyzing data and spatial mapping, Garb details how indiscriminate attacks against the civilian population and the systematic obstruction of humanitarian aid by the Israeli army caused a demographic collapse in Gaza

In this regard, the real number of fatalities could be much higher than the official balance sheet, which currently stands at around 61,000 dead.

Before the start of the offensive, the estimated population of Gaza was 2,227 million people. To date, Israeli projections place the number of inhabitants at approximately 1.85 million: a deficit of 377 uncounted people, a figure that, according to the author, can only be explained by a massive number of dead and missing persons.

Mazo News Team