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There is a reason for it. While I find none of the available sources for casualty numbers in Gaza particularly trustworthy, my trust or mistrust doesn't matter anyway. It is the responses to the OP I am commenting on. The header of my post should have been sufficient to establish this.

Of course I doubt the accuracy of the numbers that presume all casualties in a war zone to be civilians and to be caused by only one belligerent side of the armed conflict between several warring armies. This proposition is ridiculous on its face, but it is an entirely different ridiculous proposition that I am talking about here.

In anticipation of your deflection I also stipulated that my post loses none of its cogency "even if accounts of the ubiquitous "local health officials and witnesses" are to be taken for granted as god's honest truth". So you may presume whatever you wish about the accuracy of the cited sources, and whatever your presumption may be, it will have no effect on the point I am making.

And, getting back to my point, it has to do with the absolute absurdity of conspiracy theories about IDF setting up a bait, or a trap, or a "kill zone", or otherwise creating conditions to commit ethnic cleansing by distributing millions of meals to Gazan civilians.