tbh… I dont trust any numbers coming from gaza.

The IDF will OF COURSE lie about not killing as many civilians.

And Hamas will OF COURSE say dozens of hundreds are dead.

now, If I am not gonna trust neither the IDF or Hamas, I might as well trust NGO's right ?… well… I have my doubts, usually the way they tally up civilian is by conducting censuses , asking locals and of course counting bodies, and while the third method is fairly realiable, the other 2 require that local authorities and the locals themselves be honest … now I can say the locals will be somewhat honest about who they lost, but "the authorities" of the gaza strip cannot really be trusted not to say propaganda numbers.

and here's the thing… I watch combat footage from time to time and most of the time I've seen footage from gaza, it follows the same trend, Hamas fighters dressed in civilian clothing, and to add to this, something I see often is that they take turns peeking and shooting(sometimes even sharing a rifle) and … when the guy holding the rifle gets shoot or stuff start going badly, these people drop their guns and either run away under the cover of civilians while on civilian clothes, or worse, straight up start acting as civilians, as if they have not been shooting bullets a couple seconds ago.

this shit … is why I cant be sure about ANY actual numbers.

That's how you got the many Hamas insurgents currently fighting--many of those lived and suffered through the 2014 Gazan incursion. Even the term coined by Gazan hospital crews called 'Child with No Surviving Relatives' is beyond radicalizing for an individual.