Hyderabad, June 25 -- A recent Harvard Dataverse report has raised alarm over the disappearance of around 377,000 people from Gaza's pre-war population of 2.2 million, with nearly half believed to be children.

The report suggests the real death toll may be significantly higher than the officially reported 56,000, and it criticises the so-called humanitarian aid compounds in Gaza as mechanisms of military control.

Authored by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb, the report titled "The Israeli/American/GHF 'aid distribution' compounds in Gaza: Dataset and initial analysis of location, context, and internal structure," uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to track the sharp decline in Gaza's population and assess the structure and funct...