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You killed more than 70,000 civilians.
Contemporaneous UN-cited figures did not show 70,000 civilian deaths. Around the date of this post, the reported total Palestinian death toll was 65,062, and the Gaza Health Ministry/UN did not classify all of those deaths as civilians.
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This sentence overstates and misstates the casualty figures that authoritative sources were reporting at the time.
- In its 18 September 2025 Gaza situation update, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the Gaza Ministry of Health reported 65,062 total Palestinian fatalities since 7 October 2023 as of 17 September 2025.
- OCHA did not describe those 65,062 as civilians. It reported them as the overall Palestinian casualty toll.
- A same-day Associated Press report similarly said the death count had reached 65,062 and explicitly noted that the ministry does not say how many of the dead were civilians or militants.
- OCHA had also published the Gaza Ministry of Health's identified-fatalities breakdown on 6 August 2025: 60,199 identified deaths, including 18,430 children, 9,735 women, 27,605 men, and 4,429 elderly persons. That breakdown shows the official list was not recording the dead as "more than 70,000 civilians."
So, as of the date of this post, reliable contemporaneous sources did not support the claim that Israel had killed more than 70,000 civilians. The UN-cited total was about 65,000 Palestinians overall, and the official source did not classify that total as civilians-only.
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- Humanitarian Situation Update #323 | Gaza Strip | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
According to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, between 10 and 17 September, 416 Palestinians were killed, and 2,194 were injured. This brings the casualty toll among Palestinians since 7 October 2023, as reported by MoH, to 65,062 fatalities and 165,697 injuries.
- Israeli troops press forward into Gaza City as Palestinians flee and death toll passes 65,000 | PBS News
The death count in Gaza reached 65,062 ... The ministry does not say how many of the dead were civilians or militants. Its figures are seen as a reliable estimate by the U.N. and many independent experts.
- Humanitarian Situation Update #311 | Gaza Strip | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
On 4 August, the MoH in Gaza published a list of its records of 60,199 Palestinian fatalities ... According to the list, 18,430 children (31 per cent), 9,735 women (16 per cent), 27,605 men (46 per cent) and 4,429 elderly persons (seven per cent) have been killed.