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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by gizmo686 on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @12:33PM (#44649535)
Multiple things can be true at once.

It is hard/impossible to come up with an accurate death toll.

The Gaza Health Ministry systemically underreports the death toll by only counting bodies that they have directly observed.

Some third parties have tried to extrapolate from the reported numbers to get to the actual numbers; but that is a highly speculative endeavor under the best circumstances.

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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by dlubarov on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @12:44PM (#44649695)
> by only counting bodies that they have directly observed

This was only true in an early phase of the conflict; they've long since been adding casualties reported by "reliable media sources" as well as a Google form.

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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by Daishiman on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @02:29PM (#44651157)
It's amazing how there's all this skepticism when literal first-person repots come out every day showing that things are much worse on the ground.
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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by dlubarov on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @02:39PM (#44651290)
I don’t think anyone here is denying the suffering that’s occurring, but it’s still important to make sure we have our facts right.
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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by Daishiman on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @02:44PM (#44651366)
The facts on the ground are extremely clear if you read what the aid agencies on the ground say instead of what gets passed off as news by American media.
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