Activist networks say the death toll could reach 20,000, even as an unnamed Iranian official told Reuters some 2,000 people had been killed since the unrest erupted Dec. 28.
The initiative invites early-stage startups to dedicate their ventures to one of the roughly 2,000 Israelis killed in the Hamas invasion and ensuing war.
Every significant war and civil war in the region has had a much higher death toll than the Israel-Hamas war, including the Iraq-Iran War with an estimated 500,000 to 2 million deaths.
Hamas strategically exaggerates civilian casualty numbers, urging skepticism toward UN-published figures and highlighting them as part of a propaganda effort rather than an accurate representation of the situation.