Spot on. Also the 16k number is reported by Hamas and is a propaganda number. The real count is closer to 2. Also, Hamas is responsible -- Israel has killed 0 civilians.
At one point I heard it was 48k, so who knows what the "Gaza Health Ministry" really knows.
Do you think we should send independent investigators, and humanitarian institutions to do an assessment? Sure just wait for the Israeli investigation of their own crimes to finish, and in maybe a couple of decades, a few people can be let in for a couple of hours to verify the brutality.
Do you think there might be a chance the "Gaza Health Ministry", aka, Iran wouldn't be fudging these numbers to provoke an emotional response by people in the west? The same people who believe children are fine to be martyred and use them as suicide bombers or human shields?