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The current death toll in Gaza is close to 42,000, but experts believe that figure is likely a gross undercount.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That fails to take into account any effort by the idf to minimize child casualties, which is absolutely happening. It assumes an equal amount of adult and children civilian deaths when there is no marker whatsoever that shows that to be the case, other than the overall ratio of children to adults in Gaza. You have made a huge leap in your logic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

That's true; I am assuming that the age distribution of dead civilians matches the overall age distribution of civilians. Maybe efforts to minimize child casualties skew the actual distribution one way, or maybe children's greater frailty skews it the other way. I don't know but I think that my assumption is reasonable as a rough estimate.