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In other words, 36,000 children in Gaza have been killed by Israel.
15,000 killed by Isreal. The other 21,000 are unaccounted for. Now I know you're making the "joke" that if the 21,000 are "missing" that they must have been killed. And you're probably not wrong to some extent. However, unaccounted for isn't always the same as dead. If I were a kid in Palestine, and bombs started raining down, I'd get the fuck out too........and if my parents don't know where I am, but I'm alive, then I can try to contact them later. Assuming of coarse that the parents are still alive.
And sure, a portion, maybe even a large portion of those 21,000 actually are dead. We don't KNOW that, but it is a reasonable guess. The hard part is figuring out just how many of the 21,000 are alive, and how many are dead.
I say this because on 9/11, depending on which reports you base your knowledge on, somewhere between 3k-6k officially were declaired dead. Which is still a tragedy no matter what the numbers are. However on the day of the attacks, my local NBC news channel was saying the estimated deaths were close to 60,000 for the two towers, as that's how many people had gone missing.
Well........turns out a large portion of that 60k made a decision in the moment that survival was more important than logistics and numbers. Get out while you can, stay alive, and contact people later when it's safe. That's what they did on 9/11, and I assume some portion of those kids are doing the same now in Palestine.
So let's not take a situation which is already a tragedy, with no end in sight, and claim it to be the absolute worst case scenario it can be, when in reality, it's probably less than that. We just don't know by how much yet, and may not for years.
First responders and medical care were readily available after 9/11, thankfully.
In Gaza, Israel has crippled the medical system by attacking the vast majority of hospitals and much international aid. Additionally, the bombings and Rafah invasion haven't stopped.