Regarding the 17K Hamas "fighters" you say Israel says it has killed. Where does it get that number? It drops bombs on tent cities filled with civilians, mostly women and children, supposedly in the name of killing a Hamas fighter or two. Does it document the names of the fighters it says it has killed the way the Gaza authorities give the names of the dead? We ... well, I ... have discussed this before, you have pretty much avoided talking about it, but Netanyahu has joyously proclaimed the IDF is the most moral military in the world, only killing 4 civilians for every Hamas fighter he has killed. That makes the 17,000 Hamas fighters you say Israel says it has killed 20% of the number of Gazans killed, which brings the total to 85,000. Yet when the Gaza authorities say there are 40,000 dead you and others insist that is an overly high made-up number. You're trying to have it both ways. What I think you did was read the article until you found something you would disagree with, probably about two sentences in, and then proclaim it as propaganda because it differs from what you want to believe, what Israel has told you.