The latest updates for Israel's ID'd dead now sit at 933, 584 civ, 23 under 18 (though more for sure, because photos of 3 young teens had no ages).
No child identified as such is under 4, which speaks to some of the mess of war. Israel's X handle shared a photo of toddlers in happier times, & Netanyahu's gov't shared a shot baby and a burned one.
It's a fragile wartime line for familial dignity. No babies' names & photos released--but the anonymized trauma, shared.
Other notes:
Keeping up with the dead across the board is a strange affair. You scroll through mass death lists and your eyes alight on a photo that wasn't there before, a story that hadn't been added last time. You find yourself smiling at the style the dead had, in life. Seeing the family resemblance, especially in the families entirely struck down in Gaza and Israel alike.
We have lost so many human beings this terrible month.
Take good care of yours. 💙
And I don't know if everyone wants to read this sort of thing, but here's an interview with the director for the National Center of Forensic Medicine, explaining some of the work they do. (It's milder than the debrief video, though the video was data-rich.)
They still have around 200 un-ID'd bodies, & little hope of being able to ID them all - but they're going to keep trying.
Life is not like CSI shows.
Re-post forensic details carefully!