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In reply to the discussion: UN reportedly just cut in half the # of children & women claimed killed in Gaza [View all]druidity33
(6,490 posts)they didn't change the number of dead. They changed the number that were "confirmed" by gender. That left about 10,000 unidentified dead. Nobody knows the gender breakdown there except the people on the ground dealing with the dead. That would be the Health Ministry of Gaza. Yes Hamas runs the government so the Health Ministry is under their auspices... but the casualty counts through them over the years have been widely accepted as accurate. The charts posted downthread are actually instructive. I'm not trying to ruffle feathers here. It just looks to me like the numbers haven't changed. Just the way in which they are now recording who was killed. Maybe a change in policy where without a name the corpse becomes ungendered?
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I should note as well that this is a fatality count. A casualty count often includes wounded. The number of Palestinian wounded listed on the UN site is nearly 80,000. There is no record on the UN site what percentage of those were women and children.
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