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emblem-man posted...

https://www.foxnews.com/world/un-revises-gaza-death-toll-50-less-women-children-killed-previously-reported?intcmp=tw_fnc&s=09

I keep seeing this article posted but I can't find a source as to what new methodology or source the UN is using for why they decreased the women and children fatality count. They're now saying instead that some 4,959 women and 7,797 children, instead of the 9,500 and 14,500 number from before.

https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-217

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3da78daa.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/de602198.jpg

The change was for deaths identified. They also didn't previously show the number of men identified.It's not immediately clear to me the standard they're using for "identified", the age cutoff or whether men and women above a certain age are counted singularly as "elderly".

Extrapolating the proportions to the remaining 10k confirmed deaths and taking the 10k "under the rubble or otherwise missing" as deaths at face value (given these numbers are probably conservative due to the difficulties of tracking and reporting amid the mass destruction): that would be an additional 6,400 unidentified kids and 4,000 women.

So about 9k women and 14,400 children, which gets us roughly to the numbers before the reporting change. Given how well this napkin math works out, I expect this is in fact what changed in the reporting. Still I don't see an explanation on the UN page at the moment.

That's all to say, it doesn't appear that the UN has done anything to doubt or discredit the Gaza MoH numbers, instead they stopped reporting the total estimates and changed it to absolute confirmed identity deaths.

I'm only finding reporting from right wing outlets that are using the wording to suggest the total death count was reduced by the UN. It honestly looks like partisan opportunism, though the UN could probably have dampened those headlines if it gave more information up front about the reporting change.