How could it not be at least 34,000 dead? Seems rather silly to claim the figure is propaganda when anyone with a pair of eyes can see the devastation on TV.
So if Hamas tells you half a million innocent people died, you will believe that as well because CNN and MSNBC keep showing you a lot of rubble?
What you see on TV is propaganda for the most part. Just a couple of days ago, the UN (OCHA) revised the published number of women and children killed downward by almost half. Never mind that they count young men of fighting age as children.