A good article for both sides. Excerpts are all from May 2024:
In May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said 14,000 Hamas fighters and 16,000 Palestinian civilians had been killed in the war.
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Did the fatality statistics get ‘halved’?
Not according to the U.N.’s explanation.
Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General, said the overall number of fatalities recorded by authorities in Gaza and reported by the U.N. have "remained unchanged at more than 35,000 people" since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a violent attack on Israel. But the subcategorization on deaths of women and children changed because the ministry provided an updated breakdown of those whose identities it said had been fully documented. This was a smaller subset of the total number of fatalities.
Typically, when a conflict occurs, the U.N. gets its casualty data from what Haq described as "our trusted sources on the ground," then it cross-checks that information. The scale and intensity of the fighting in Gaza, however, sets this conflict apart and, in this case, Haq said, the U.N. has no means to verify firsthand the Ministry of Health’s data.
Although the data cannot be interpreted as incontrovertible, the U.N., World Health Organization and organizations that track conflict casualties said Hamas’ government-sourced data should not be dismissed outright.
Following previous conflicts, the U.N.’s efforts to independently verify the Ministry of Health’s fatality data found only small discrepancies. That said, this conflict stands apart in its scale of destruction, experts said, making the statistics’ reliability more of an open question.
Between the May 6 and May 8 updates, the total number of reported fatalities increased from 34,735 people to 34,844 people, including a subset of more than 10,000 people "reported missing or under the rubble."
And again, this was a couple months ago and there's no reason to think that the numbers have not increased since then.
I have been saying that I believe that there have been tens of thousands of Palestinian children killed in Gaza to date. And by the rate of increase I've seen, there isn't any reason for me not to think that at least 20,000 (technically tens of thousands) Palestinian children have been slaughtered or starved to death.
So, from the media sources that you accept, what are the numbers that you believe are the closest match to the actual numbers of Palestinian children, women, and all innocent victims killed by Israeli forces since October 7th...?
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