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Gregg Abbott Says "Antisemitism Will Not Be Tolerated in Texas"
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<blockquote data-quote="RocksInMyHead" data-source="post: 77657706" data-attributes="member: 284142"><p>Do you have a better source? I'm aware of the potential for bias in the data (though their casualty counts have generally been considered accurate prior to the October 7th attacks), and I certainly take the numbers with some grain of salt. I'm also conscious of the fact that they don't differentiate between militants and civilians. However, I have no reason to believe that they're <em>wildly</em> inaccurate based on the known population density and scale of the strikes that we've seen. I would not be surprised if the civilian death toll in Gaza was at least on par with that of Ukraine, despite Ukraine having been at war for 4x as long.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://time.com/6909636/gaza-death-toll/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>ETA: the primary concerns with the absolute death toll counts in Gaza are that they are an extreme <em>undercount</em> - the MoH's primary method of data collection has become significantly less robust as hospitals have closed and emergency personnel have left areas of Gaza, and they've instead had to rely more on media reports for estimates, which are less reliable - both because they are more likely to double-count casualties and because they are more likely to report civilian deaths than militants or suspected militants. See, for example, this critical analysis: <a href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable" target="_blank">Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely Unreliable</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RocksInMyHead, post: 77657706, member: 284142"] Do you have a better source? I'm aware of the potential for bias in the data (though their casualty counts have generally been considered accurate prior to the October 7th attacks), and I certainly take the numbers with some grain of salt. I'm also conscious of the fact that they don't differentiate between militants and civilians. However, I have no reason to believe that they're [I]wildly[/I] inaccurate based on the known population density and scale of the strikes that we've seen. I would not be surprised if the civilian death toll in Gaza was at least on par with that of Ukraine, despite Ukraine having been at war for 4x as long. [URL unfurl="true"]https://time.com/6909636/gaza-death-toll/[/URL] ETA: the primary concerns with the absolute death toll counts in Gaza are that they are an extreme [I]undercount[/I] - the MoH's primary method of data collection has become significantly less robust as hospitals have closed and emergency personnel have left areas of Gaza, and they've instead had to rely more on media reports for estimates, which are less reliable - both because they are more likely to double-count casualties and because they are more likely to report civilian deaths than militants or suspected militants. See, for example, this critical analysis: [URL='https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/gaza-fatality-data-has-become-completely-unreliable']Gaza Fatality Data Has Become Completely Unreliable[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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