Amid Israel’s destruction of Gaza, as many as 120,000 bodies remain unrecovered and therefore not included in the death toll
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Reuters and other corporate news outlets only report Gaza’s health ministry data which only counts confirmed deaths via hospitals. This is a more realistic estimate that includes missing people under the rubble and other deaths from people that weren’t able to reach the hospital before being killed.