An exercise with war casualty stats you can do is look at previous wars and look at the variation in estimates in body counts for each side. Then factor that into the news you are reading it.

End game is there has never been a credible body count from even a small scale war. So to claim anyone is right here on either side is probably selective bias on your part. At best when the dust has figuratively and literally settled, it'll be a decade before anyone has an even remotely credible count.

Manipulation of the body counts is easy material for propaganda. It has been since the dawn of war.

Factor child soldiers into these arguments and it gets very grey. The number itself without compounding facts has little meaning.

And for the sake of credibility, the figures were later revised so you're not even quoting their current estimates and compromising your own credibility!

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/...