the numbers are from the West Bank? What do you mean? Every single article I can find references the Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry.
My bad, they are reported by both from what I can gather.
Here is the historical accuracy:
— 2008 war: The ministry reported 1,440 Palestinians killed; the U.N. reported 1,385.
— 2014 war: The ministry reported 2,310 Palestinians killed; the U.N. reported 2,251.
— 2021 war: The ministry reported 260 Palestinians killed; the U.N. reported 256.
So let's say that the 10,051 death count of today might only actually be 9700 by the UN's methodology, and maybe instead of 4104 children it is only 3900.
Listen 1 dead child is too many. But these deaths are on Hamas not Israel. They could've surrendered weeks ago and spared all of them.
"If you guys didn't want us to kill civilians, you could've just surrendered"
That's like someone telling me "If your family didn't want to get gassed, they could've just voluntarily left Europe"
This is like when an abuser tells you "If you didn't want me to hurt you, you could've just done _"
This is victim blaming.
When you have been trapped in an open-air prison for your entire life, every attempt at peace has been thwarted for decades, and a US & Israel-backed Islamic fundamentalist militant group takes power, then this is a pretty predictable outcome.