Comment by hmcq6

> 11,000 is not “tens of thousands.” It’s a horrible number. But horrible doesn’t mean numbers are meaningless.

1) you're splitting semantic hairs that no one but you actually cares about. No one who is still on the fence is going to see your comment and think "hmm I guess I still don't know". If you'll excuse the death of 11,000 children you'll excuse the death of any amount of children.

2) this conflict has been going on for over a year but that quote only reflects a years worth of data so the real number will be higher than the one I supplied.

3) I take it you don't know what conservative means in this context? Let me break it down for you another way then.

The lancet's conservative estimates up to 186,000 deaths will be attributable to the IOF's handling of Gaza. Given 43% of the population of Palestine was children before Oct 7th that means we can expect about 80,000 children will have died as a results of Israel's actions even if the ceasefire holds.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

So again, you're splitting semantic hairs to try and imply that the damage is being overstated when it is in fact as accurate as one can be.