Some tidbits from my time in Israel

[FlyersFan]

So what number of dead is ok?. 

You know those death numbers in Gaza are highly disputed, right?  Hamas has been caught lying many times about the number of dead, like when they lied and claimed that israel had airbombed a hospital and that 500 died, but the truth was one of Hamas' own rockets fell in the parking lot and killed 50.  Hamas also has no way to be counting the number accurately.  And they do not differentiate between a dead child and a dead terrorist.  They lump them all together as 'dead palestinians'.  They like bigger numbers of dead civilians, even if it's fake, so that they can use it for propaganda.  

There may be 30,000 dead civilians.   But there probably aren't.   No one will ever know the truth.  

Prof of Statistics at Wharton - (graphs and charts at the link)

Hamas’ Gaza death toll stats are pure fiction

Wyner’s critique is damning: The daily reported death tolls rise in a straight line, about 270 a day — which makes zero sense, since in any war, some days see far greater fighting and bombing than others.

Plus there’s no correlation between the reported numbers of children and women slain each day (when most kids are surely near their mothers) or between the numbers of women and men.

Also, the ministry claims that 70% of the dead are women and children, while Hamas admits to losing 6,000 of its (male) combatants — which would mean that almost no male civilians have been killed.

The obvious conclusion is that the ministry is just (clumsily) making it all up. It’s definitely not presenting real info gathered from across Gaza.