I've been arguing that for at least the past several pages. I think you didn't catch that. They are TWO different numbers. I look to the Health Ministry for Total Casualties. And the IDF for Hamas fighter deaths (estimated only). Because they are two different pieces of information. Both valid... with limitations. Taken together, they present a fuller, somewhat more accurate picture. It's all I've been arguing for the last few pages.
I've NEVER said choose one or the other.
They are mutually exclusive, but (I think I am saying this wrong. Each number "excludes" a piece of information... but the Hamas fighter killed by the IDF (estimated) is a PART of the Health Ministry's total Gazan deaths reported. So not mutually exclusive that way). In combination, (meaning the 13K as a sub-component of the Health Ministry's 29K), they are actually more accurate then as stand-alone numbers. Neither paints a complete picture by themselves, hence, the need to combine the two pieces of information.
And in fact, my argument the past few pages was ALWAYS to COMBINE the two numbers for a fuller picture. I've never deviated from that.