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First off, thanks for the very detailed reply!
This is a very important point. Any numbers can be inflated. When early Zionists committed the Deir Yassin (?) massacre, many Palestinian freedom fighters inflated the real numbers to fear-monger others to join them in their fight. Some also downplayed the numbers for their own reasons. This is one of the things I've learned recently just reading about the history of this long conflict. Very interesting!
That being said, I've also come to understand that many evidence is video based and can be geolocated and confirmed using landmarks and so on. I doubt that they will only present their case using news articles with no footage/video evidence.
I totally agree that a history of war crimes doesn't mean Israel is committing all of them 🤣
However one thing that stood out for me was not having allowed adequate aid in. On one hand, Israel says it's providing enough aid. On the other hand, the UN and every other organization are talking about some of the difficulties of getting aid in and some decisions that Israel has taken sound ridiculous though! I read they didn't allow dates in, and many everyday items were branded as "dual use" and banned from entering (like scissors!!).
To me the news reports are too chaotic to make a case against Israel, but the throttling of aid entering while also conducting military operations at every single hospital in Gaza could, in my opinion, be strong indicators to use in a case against them at the ICC. Of course I know Hamas operates often from the midst of civilian crowds, but whether they were there in the hospitals or not may not play such a huge role because in the end a large number of civilians were harmed and life-saving and essential infrastructure was destroyed by Israel. It doesn't look good for them even though I understand why it was necessary.