“The numbers are heavily relied up for official briefings on civilian casualties because with the exception of strikes on high-value targets, where senior officials are briefed on collateral damage, no civilian casualty figures or estimates are collected,” said the Israeli official, who cannot be identified in the media. “A lot of targets have been hit without prior analysis or estimates and there’s never any follow up collection.”
It’s an undercount. Everyone knows this. It doesn’t include the bodies buried under the rubble
Or those who most likely will die soon of illness, child birth, lack of food, lack of medicine and many other forms that intintioally ignore by media, and governments.