36 dead, what did someone go take a roll call? I just don’t see how you can get an accurate count. Collapsed tunnels, anyone outside on guard = puddles of goo. Maybe intercepted communications? Or pure propaganda in which case they should have said 150 dead.
Exactly! Probably some intelligence officer's SWAG based on what he could make out in a sat photo.
They likely did a roll call and 36 didn’t make the call. So there’s the number. Standard practice in military units for 3000+ years.