Bernie Sanders: "Frankly I have a hard time understanding why Congress won't act to put a stop to this suffering"

[Uncle Joe]

50. As of January 18th over 24,448 Palestinian and 1,410 Israeli have been killed per UNRWA

As of 18 January, over 25,000 people (24,448 Palestinian and 1,410 Israeli[8]) have been killed in the Israel–Hamas war, including 83 journalists (76 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 3 Lebanese) and over 136 UNRWA aid workers.[9][10]

On 7 October 2023, 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals, including 764 civilians, were killed, and 248 persons taken hostage during the initial attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip.[11][12][13] Since then, over 24,000 Palestinians (the majority of whom were women and children) in the Gaza Strip have been killed according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatant and civilian casualties in its reports.[14][15] A further 320 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank by Israel military and settlers.[16] Casualties have also occurred in other parts of Israel, as well as in southern Lebanon, and Syria.[17]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war#:~:text=As%20of%20December%2030%2C%202023,mean%20about%202%2C353%20militant%20deaths.



I don't understand why you find 25000 dead to be unrealistic?

Dropping hundreds of 2000 bombs in a three month span on an area as densely populated as the Gaza Strip of 2.3 million people with about 40+% of them being children.

I would expect the figures to much higher.