According to one Palestinian doctor:
The IDF pegs the casualty figure at twice that, which might indicate the Israeli focus on constantly updating the body count has itself caused an inflation in the number. The U.S. military has gone back and forth on this issue in Iraq, but for the most part avoids reporting on enemy casualties except in the case of more conventional operations like the battle with the Mahdi militia in Basra and Sadr City last year. The IDF has a much better view of the entire battlefield than one doctor, but given wide-spread public support for the operation in Israel, it certainly possible that the IDF was under some pressure create an impression of more, not less, destruction. Either way, it’s obvious the IDF went to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties in an urban environment that made such efforts extremely difficult.
