Unfortunately they keep killing the journalists and anyone else who could get a more realistic number

There are ~3 congress members out of 535 total who oppose this genocide. Thats ~0.56%, despite the general population of the US being over half opposing the genocide.

The US isn't a democracy, its a capitalist dictatorship, and meaningful change can't come through its own system.

Most Americans fully support this. AOC votes to send missiles to Israel and the Democrats are falling over eachother to defend her.

A quick search came up with this suggesting a 6% drop.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-population-down-by-6-since-start-war-palestinian-statistics-bureau-2025-01-01/

Also interesting to note there’s this saying the population in Gaza went up 2%. Not sure what political leanings world population review have or why such a site would have any but I’m obviously skeptical. https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/palestine/gaza

23000 hamas fighters remain with a population of around 400000 so around 5%.

Or maybe some do and that's what they want?

For real

I think if I ever hear someone say that unironically in real life, I'm going to smack them.

As much as I agree with you, I think the purpose of the 'women and children' stats is more to avoid malicious attempts to derail the conversation by distracting with questions of "how many of them were Hamas tho", "how do you know they weren't Hamas", etc.

Adding to what the other person said, when reporting on Palestine until like a year ago (and for certain parts of the political spectrum even now) it was essential to avoid making any statements that have holes, real or imagined, for Zionists to exploit. That's why the official casualty count is an underestimate, and why the number of women and children is stressed so much. Israel used to (and sometimes still does) always get the benefit of the doubt, so making sure the facts being presented are ironclad has/had to take precedence over covering the full extent of the madness.