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Is it not the case that the civilian death toll in wars tends to be significantly higher than the number of combatants killed? I might be wrong on that, but my memory of studying World War Two at school was that around 70% of those who died were civilians. As you say, it's harder in Gaza to separate the Hamas militant death toll from the civilian one.

With Iranian support for Hamas likely to be significantly diluted in the wake of the last couple of weeks, Hamas should seriously consider releasing whatever hostages remain alive. Netanyahu will prolong this conflict for as long as he can to avoid an electoral reckoning in Israel, but if they can achieve their purported aim of freeing the remaining hostages there's less justification for the ongoing hostilities, especially if Iranian funding for Hamas dries up. As Pretty Boy suggested in an earlier post, a regime change in Iran and fresh elections in Israel would at least provide some sort of hope for a less volatile future situation across the region.
WWII is fairly well known for its genocides/mass atrocities. I dunno if other mechanical-age warfare has numbers similar to it.